On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:46:31 -0500, Kurt Raschke <kurt at kurtraschke.com>
wrote:
> I am running build 131 on a Toshiba NB205 (this is the NB205-N210
> model sold on opensolaris.com). I've run into three usability issues
> with OpenSolaris on this netbook:
>
[...]
>
> 2. No driver for trackpad: The NB205 has an Alps trackpad which is
> supported under Windows and Linux, but under OpenSolaris it is only
> recognized as a generic mouse. The man page for the Synaptics
> trackpad driver makes mention of support for Alps trackpads, but
> forcing the synaptics driver to be loaded (as discussed by Uwe
> Stuehler) results in the trackpad becoming inoperative.
>
>
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2010-January/008237.html
>
Hi Kurt,
This should ask the synaptics driver to look for an ALPS touchpad instead
of a Synaptics one:
# cat <<_EOF | pfexec tee /etc/hal/fdi/policy/30user/11-alps-touchpad.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
<merge key="input.x11_options.Protocol" type="string">alps</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
_EOF
# pfexec svcadm restart hal
(Strangely, the "alps" value isn't documented in the synaptics(7) man
page).
-Albert
