NAME
bcm5974 – Wellspring touchpad driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into your kernel configuration file:
device bcm5974 device hidbus device hid device usbhid device usb device evdev
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
bcm5974_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The bcm5974 driver provides support for the Wellspring touchpads found in many Apple laptops.
To get multi-touch device working in X(7) (ports/x11/xorg-docs), install ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput.
FILES
bcm5974 creates a pseudo-device file, /dev/input/eventX which presents the multi-touch device as an input event device.
SEE ALSO
hid(4), loader.conf(5), xorg.conf(5) (ports/x11/xorg), libinput(4) (ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput).
AUTHORS
The bcm5974 driver was written by Vladimir Kondratyev ⟨[email protected]⟩. It is based on wsp(4) driver written by Huang Wen Hui ⟨[email protected]⟩.
BUGS
bcm5974 cannot act like sysmouse(4)