Re: Trackpad disabled in BIOS but activated in NetBSD

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 at 23:20, Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:51:09AM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to have NetBSD honour the same BIOS setting as Windows? -
> > this is under NetBSD-8 and latest -9
> >
>
> use sysctl to set:
>
> hw.synaptics.finger_high
> hw.synaptics.finger_low
>
> to some high values, this will cause the trackpad driver to ignore
> touches on the trackpad.

Many thanks. UCHAR_MAX seems to be the perfect choice :)

I wonder if it would be worth a sysctl to explicitly disable synaptics
for ease of use?

Thanks again!

David