Re: 3 years and going strong!

On Sunday 13 August 2006 02:48, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 09:35:22AM +1000, Peter Sandilands wrote:
> >
> > 	Thanks, you guys.  I don't have anything against > 866, etc.
> > 	I just figured that anything over a GHz *had* to have been
> > 	"upgraded" to the std scratch-pad.  If not, then wow!
>
> Gary,
>
> As far as i know, all ThinkPads still use the TrackPoint(tm). IBM invented
> it and it is quite popular. Seems to be a binary function. You love it or
> you hate it. I have not met anyone who was in the "don't care" category.
>
> My fairly shiny new T43 has one as does a co-worker's new T60. I don't know
> about the new, low-cost 3000 series, but I believe that all other ThinkPads
> have a track point as do many Dell and HP systems. Probably other brands,
> too.
>
> Oddly, the scratch-pad must be disabled to enable the middle button. This
> has never made sense to me, but it seems that is the way it is.

You have to enable synaptics support in psm(4). By doing that the middle 
button works nicely while trackpoint and touchpad are both operational.

Adding hw.psm.synaptics_support="1" to loader.conf should do the trick (it 
does at least on my T41p).

You might as well want to have a look at the synaptics x11 driver from ports 
(x11-servers/synaptics) which enables one to use several advanced features of 
the touchpad. You can find several utilities for configuration in ports as 
well (ksynaptics and gsynaptics. Maybe there are others).

Markus

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