Enabling Dell Inspiron 1150 touch pad?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 19 January 2005 at 17:11:07 -0600, Hauan David A wrote:
> On  Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:36 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>> I've just installed 5.3-RELEASE on an Inspiron 1150 (some of
>> you will have seen my questions about this machine a couple
>> of weeks ago).  I can't get the touch pad to work.  I've
>> tried installing a -CURRENT (as of yesterday) kernel, and
>> there's no improvement.  The relevant parts of the dmesg
>> (from a verbose boot) appear to be:
>>
>>   psmcpnp0: <PS/2 mouse port> at irq 12 on isa0
>>   psm0: current command byte:0065
>>   psm0: the aux port is not functioning (-1).
>>
>> The complete dmesg is at http://www.lemis.com/grog/dmesg.
>>
>> Before I go digging, has anybody else seen something like
>> this?  Any ideas where to look?
>
> http://www.rdegraaf.nl/index.asp?sND_ID=487235

Thanks!  That did the trick.  I now have:

  psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> flags 0x1000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
  psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
  psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0


For the benefit of others: this laptop requires a device flag for the
touch pad.  This change is needed in /boot/device.hints:

   --- /boot/device.hints  2004/11/05 01:27:17     1.1
   +++ /boot/device.hints  2005/01/19 17:36:23
   @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
    hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
    hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
    hint.psm.0.irq="12"
   +# Needed on Inspiron 1150
   +hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"
    hint.vga.0.at="isa"
    hint.sc.0.at="isa"
    hint.sc.0.flags="0x100"

The web page also talks about putting start parameters for moused into
/etc/rc.conf; I don't think this is necessary.  I suspect that you
just need to remove the line:

   moused_enable="NO"

Greg
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