wmt(4freebsd)

wmt4freebsd

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

Usage

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into your kernel configuration file:

device wmt device usb device evdev

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line 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), 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

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10
  2. 11–13

Authors

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

Bugs

wmt works only with touchscreens now. Neither pens nor touchpads are supported.

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

From freebsd-manpages 12.2-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.