Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:41:12 -0400 From: Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Precision 7520 laptop: built-in mouse "fail"; USB mouse OK Message-ID: <20180319004112.2slelw5ccw34xubf@mutt-hbsd> In-Reply-To: <20180317163348.GO1094@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20180317163348.GO1094@albert.catwhisker.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 09:33:48AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > As I've migrated from one laptop to another (since around 2000), I don't > recall encountering issues with the built-in mouse before, so this > caught me a bit off guard. :-} > > My last several laptops have all been Dell machines; the one I've > been using regularly for the last 3 years in a Precision M4800; > information on it may be found at > <https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Dell_Precision_M4800?highlight=(\bCategoryLaptop\b)>, > and copies of full verbose dmesg.boot files (running stable/11 & > head, built this morning) may be found via > <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/history/>. > > Yesterday, I took delivery of a Dell Precision 7520, the superficial > appearance of which is quite like that of the M4800: Each has both > trackpoint ("eraser-head") pointer and a trackpad; for each machine, > the trackpad has a set of 3 buttons across the top and a set of 3 > across the bottom. (And in each, the set of "mouse components" is > offset to the left by about half the width of the numeric keypad that I > don't use and wish wasn't there. :-/ ) > > However, while the mouse "just works" on the M4800, it does absolutely > nothing in FreeBSD (except create a stationary cursor). (It works > fine going into the BIOS setup and making adjustments to various > things, so this isn't a hardware issue, per se.) > > I built stable/11 @r331093 (amd64) on each of them and saved a verbose > dmesg.boot on each; I have copied them to > <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/laptops/>. > > I extracted the part (of the dmesgboot files) that involves the > keyboard and mouse for comparison here: How different is the 7520 from the 7510? I'm running HardenedBSD 12-CURRENT on the 7510 without issues. Both the trackpad and the thing below and between the G and H keys (I totally forgot what it's called) work fine for me. Multitouch for vertical scrolling on the trackpad works fine, too. I haven't tried 11-STABLE on this laptop. Thanks, -- Shawn Webb Cofounder and Security Engineer HardenedBSD Tor-ified Signal: +1 443-546-8752 GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEKrq2ve9q9Ia+iT2eaoRlj1JFbu4FAlqvByMACgkQaoRlj1JF bu7AwA//YitfeWLkwq/CnrLt30qbat9BX0CYO3hNnDYacyhReN4zN7ftLl9Zl4Ri DEDrxgPCqewhEfAGNhBVT7he5gL5+GVpqOQRGWDzXLVMOWj/faOOWPUIO/2ltuRb UhwFZe8Wwi5l3KP5Qg66NnA1Z0v2AGWl1l2IDoh1ptNCZz+ztaATBeklGPlITrRK brFo+l/rbDcVyNHWH7BRPWO7Pl7TdaRsc+Uya5ubwYYL4O4wMEKpMZePxaD8Upez kE/C9BvIyz2INTJ9sIql5RCzXuDWREK2tRc9BCUgCOtPWjTJa4AnoJknkmQAEQuY ZiZYMPxDvMsCrx8kIX9FBQ/+7jSWjJK9Jl6T8iHZWlJ9vq8w4q1khcRoW34SOup0 memFYYwuEzQW/Ugj9ykf11VrDOfPco/923QxkEdv0VS5aoSKBtPFfUW9S50rHrSl Vo5A/01S5jaDCcLzKnybMgpGNYP99vHJ17LF4V5SqquHxeP7InzBnh4K44xSnUwM 5kR78mc7OCmZKePQeeAJQhNYQ1LHhZpuH65pe1B0sRElBu/7YptH29OJ8uwqXQMJ 0lcYHL7OtL40pgHc6dPRCGeN6ARxvNNjmJtVHAHRgnmP62cQTzDqi8px5C/1wnCA 4yn2FRJeshoqcLH131TbZPdti56CiTsYs6WBywFQ3yuzTQT4isc= =NpZs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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