Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:18:00 +0300 From: Vladimir Kondratyev <vladimir@kondratyev.su> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: CFT: EVDEV support in psm(4) driver Message-ID: <5fa9225de944d6cdac0b7e5749b452a9@kondratyev.su>
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Hi, FreeBSD laptop users
Following patch [1] bring in multitouch EVDEV support for Synaptics and
Elan PS/2
touchpads found in many laptops. (And for generic relative PS/2 mices as
well).
This allows to replace our limited in-kernel gesture processor with
full-blown
one from xf86-input-synaptics or xf86-input-libinput driver and makes
Synaptics and Elan PS/2 touchpad support to be mostly on par with Linux
Other mostly evdev-unrelated fixes and improvements are:
1. Fix rare but quite annoying issue in Elan hw v.4 touchpads support.
Triple-finger taps are reported as double-finger taps under several
circumstances.
2. Adjust tap min queue size on Elans to make multifinger tap detection
more reliable.
3. Adjust Elantech palm width threshold to nearly match synaptics
defaults
4. Discard pointer movements rather then mouse packets on palm detection
to reduce cursor jumping.
5. Enable palm detection on two finger touches for multitouch trackpads.
6. Reduce synaptics touch sensitivity
Increase hw.psm.synaptics.min_pressure default value from 16 to 32
to nearly match Linux driver (30-35 hysteresis loop).
This makes libinput tap detection more reliable.
7. Serialize atkbdc ports and psm softc access with mutexes
and mark psm interrupt and cdev handlers MPSAFE
Patch is made for 12-CURRENT and most probably can be applied to recent
11-STABLE (not tested)
How to test.
1. Apply patch [1]
2. Add `device evdev` and `options EVDEV_SUPPORT` to kernel config file
and rebuild kernel
3. Add hw.psm.elantech_support=1 or hw.psm.synaptics_support=1 to
/boot/loader.conf
4. Add kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=12 to /etc/sysctl.conf to enable psm source
and disable sysmouse
5. Install x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics port compiled with EVDEV
support enabled or
x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput
6. Tell XOrg to use synaptics or libinput driver as primary mouse
driver:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "synaptics"
# Driver "libinput"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/eventXXX"
EndSection
Exact value of "/dev/input/eventXXX" can be obtained with evemu-record
utiliy [2].
In most cases I have seen psm event device is located at
/dev/input/event2.
Lenovo trackpoint should appear as separate relative event device and is
handled with xf86-input-evdev driver (not tested yet)
Note: Neither HAL nor DEVD Xorg configuration backends support evdev at
present time so
x11-servers/xorg-server should be recompiled w/o autoconfiguration
support.
Alternatively DEVD or UDEV backends from coming Xorg update [3] can be
used
7. Reboot and test touchpad with XOrg or evemu-record
[1] psm(4) evdev support: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10207
Raw diff:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/file/data/pqjvpuhwfgsu5nnamibg/PHID-FILE-uuyjx66blb344hre3nc2/D10207.vson.id27478.whitespaceignore-most.diff
[2] evemu port: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218383
Not commited yet.
[3] Xorg 1.19.3 update:
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2017-March/019100.html
(Patch content is slightly garbled)
--
WBR
Vladimir Kondratyev
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