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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:47:05 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
To:        Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)
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2018-01-08 22:47 GMT+01:00 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>:

>
>
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:38:55 +0100
> Ren=C3=A9 Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 08-01-2018 22:08, Greg V wrote:
> > >
> > > On 01/09/2018 00:02, Ren=C3=A9 Ladan wrote:
> > >> On 08-01-2018 21:28, Greg V via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> > >>> On 01/08/2018 23:23, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > >>>>> On 8. Jan 2018, at 21:15, Ren=C3=A9 Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> wrot=
e:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> On 30-12-2017 15:58, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > >>>>>> Hi,
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> I found some time to play with FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad
> > >>>>>> T470s and I'm quite happy with the results, as all important
> > >>>>>> features work, especially essentials like graphics, touchpad
> > >>>>>> and suspend to RAM.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> The configuration is pretty straightforward, but a few things
> > >>>>>> required
> > >>>>>> research (like evdev, udev and libinput), that's why I
> > >>>>>> documented my setup here, hoping that it might help others:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> https://blog.grem.de/pages/t470s.html
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>> I followed your instructions to try to get the touchpad working
> > >>>>> on my laptop (Acer E5-773G-78RN) but that didn't work.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> libinput-debug-events sees the touchpad (I think, event0) but it
> > >>>>> doesn't
> > >>>>> respond to it:
> > >>>> Did you install a patched version of xorg (with UDEV enabled)
> > >>>> and a custom kernel (device and option added)? What is the
> > >>>> output of xinput? What is the output of evemu-record from
> > >>>> devel/evemu? Feel free to email me all config- and log files
> > >>>> off-list.
> > >> Hmm, there is no option UDEV in 'make config' for xorg-server,
> > >> only DEVD (default) and HAL?
> > > You need my patch for that:
> > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D222609
> > >>> If libinput doesn't list it, it's not time to mess with xorg
> > >>> yet :)
> > >>>
> > >>> I guess EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled since there's a "PixArt USB
> > >>> Optical Mouse" (ums) device.
> > >>>
> > >> That PixArt thing is physical USB mouse, which always works ;)
> > > Yeah, uh, if you didn't have EVDEV_SUPPORT, it would not show up as
> > > an evdev device.
> > >>> Is the psm module loaded? Is there anything in dmesg about psm?
> > >> Not currently I think:
> > >> rene@e17:~ % grep -i psm /root/dmesg-v-20180108
> > >> psm0: unable to allocate IRQ
> > >> rene@e17:~ % kldstat -v|grep psm
> > >>         439 acpi/psmcpnp
> > >>         438 isa/psmcpnp
> > >>         437 atkbdc/psm
> > > atkbdc/psm is it, it's built into the kernel, that's fine.
> > >
> > > The "unable to allocate IRQ" looks like a problem=E2=80=A6
> > >
> > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2015-
> February/081757.html
> > >
> > Hmm, indeed.
> >
> > After applying the xorg-server patches correctly the touchpad still
> > does not work (unplugging the mouse makes no difference).
> >
> > From /var/log/Xorg.0.log :
> > [ 10976.795] (II) config/udev: Adding input device System mouse
> > (/dev/input/event0)
> > [ 10976.795] (**) System mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer
> > catchall" [ 10976.795] (**) System mouse: Applying InputClass
> > "libinput pointer catchall"
> > [ 10976.795] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
> > [ 10976.795] (II)
> > Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/libinput_drv.so
> > [ 10977.222] (II) Module libinput: vendor=3D"X.Org
> > Foundation" [ 10977.222]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version =3D
> > 0.25.0 [ 10977.222]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
> > [ 10977.222]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 22.1
> > [ 10977.222] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'System
> > mouse' [ 10977.222] (**) System mouse: always reports core events
> > [ 10977.222] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" [ 10977.223]
> > (**) Option "_source" "server/udev" [ 10977.223] (II) input device
> > 'System mouse', /dev/input/event0 is tagged by udev as: Mouse
> > [ 10977.223] (II) input device 'System mouse', /dev/input/event0 is a
> > pointer caps
> > [ 10977.223] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/dev/input/event0"
> > [ 10977.223] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "System mouse"
> > (type: MOUSE, id 6)
> > [ 10977.223] (**) Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
> > [ 10977.223] (**) System mouse: (accel) selected scheme none/0
> > [ 10977.223] (**) System mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
> > [ 10977.223] (**) System mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
> > [ 10977.224] (II) input device 'System mouse', /dev/input/event0 is
> > tagged by udev as: Mouse
> > [ 10977.224] (II) input device 'System mouse', /dev/input/event0 is a
> > pointer caps
> >
> > So if I understand correctly X sees the device but cannot talk to it?
> >
>
> Did you do all the other checks outlined in my previous email and also
> check the output of bin/evemu-record? Is this actually a synaptics
> touchpad? Do you have any xorg configuration in place (besides
> configuring the input class you shouldn't need any).
>
> I only have the two xorg configuration files from your blog. Not super-su=
re
if it is a synaptics touchpad though, nothing in verbose dmesg about
touchpads.

-m
>
> p.s. Just to repeat:
> # sysctl kern.features.evdev_support
> kern.features.evdev_support: 1
>
yes

> # sysctl kern.evdev.rcpt_mask
> kern.evdev.rcpt_mask: 12
>
yes

> # pkg info -R xorg-server | grep UDEV
>     UDEV =3D "on";
>
yes

> #sysctl hw.psm.synaptics_support
> sysctl hw.psm.synaptics_support: 1
>
yes

>
> --
> Michael Gmelin
>



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