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Synaptics™ TouchPads on FreeBSD
Synaptics™ touchpads are pointing devices found on many laptops.
The psm(4) driver in FreeBSD
supports these touchpads for a long time, at least in Relative mode
(the touchpad is recognized as a standard 3-buttons mouse).
Unfortunately, in this mode, the user doesn't have access to
advanced features. A more powerful Synaptics driver was added
during summer 2004, but many issues still remain, especially
compared to the Microsoft Windows version.
Therefore, I began to work on a serie of patches to improve the situation.
All informations and the patches themselves have now a dedicated page on the FreeBSD's wiki: