wmt(4)

wmt4

Ms windows 7/8/10 - compatible usb hid multi-touch device driver

Usage

device wmt device usb device hid device evdev

In loader.conf(5): wmt_load="YES"

Overview

The wmt driver provides support for the MS Windows 7/8/10 - compatible USB HID multi-touch devices found in many laptops.

To get multi-touch device working in X(7) (ports/x11/xorg-docs), install ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev.

Files

wmt creates a pseudo-device file, /dev/input/eventX which presents the multi-touch device as an input event device.

Releases

23 releases since FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE; the text changed 11 times.

  1. 11.2
  2. 11.3
  3. 11.4
  4. 12.0
  5. 12.1
  6. 12.2
  7. 12.3
  8. 12.4
  9. 13.0–13.2
  10. 13.3–13.5
  11. 14.0–15.1
  12. 16.0

Authors

The wmt driver was written by Vladimir Kondratyev ⟨[email protected]⟩.

Bugs

wmt cannot act like sysmouse(4), as sysmouse(4) does not support absolute motion events.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.