On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda <acam...@the00z.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: >> Hi list, >> I'm really new to openbsd, so please forgive me if this is faq or rtfm. >> >> I did try to search for information on how to be able to scroll with my laptop touchpad, but did not find any openbsd specific documentation. >> >> I'd be happy if someone could point me to any documentation describing how to do this in openbsd. >> >> My system: >> $ uname -a >> OpenBSD neo.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386 >> >> My laptop: >> Dell Latitude CPt 400 >> (it's an old P2 400MHz) >> >> In WinXP a driver from synaptics made the scrolling work. >> >> TIA, >> -- >> Mikael Bak <mik...@t-online.hu> >> > > First... investigate if the scrolling ins'n in hardware... > > (I read the manual of my eeepc and it said everything about "scrolling", > because the eeepc have some interesting ways to do it)
It's not in hardware. On linux this is supported by the synaptics X touchpad driver. I would also really like to see this work on OpenBSD but I'm not awesome enough to know why it doesn't. I took a stab at compiling the synaptics driver (which you can google for) and it, of course, failed miserably (and yes I used gmake). I know that some features need a multitouch touchpad, but simple scrolling should just be able to work with any touchpad that can give an x,y coordinate. It's a pity. -Nick
