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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2018 10:53:51 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9_Ladan?= <r.c.ladan@gmail.com>
To:        Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>
Cc:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)
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2018-01-08 22:54 GMT+01:00 Greg V <greg@unrelenting.technology>:

>
> On 01/09/2018 00:38, Ren=C3=A9 Ladan 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> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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 xinpu=
t?
>>>>>> 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-Febr
>>> uary/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/in
>> put/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?
>>
> No! Nothing sees the device because the kernel driver for PS/2 mice faile=
d
> to allocate an IRQ!!
>
> "System mouse" is the virtual (moused) mouse device that's always present=
.
>
> Update your laptop's firmware ("BIOS") to the latest version.
>
> I have to check that back home.

If the message still persists, you'll probably have to patch the ACPI DSDT
> tables as described in
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2015-Febr
> uary/081757.html
>
> Guess having ACPI shipped in FreeBSD 12.0 r327681 is not new enough?

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