[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Per Hedeland]

On 2020-02-20 22:38, Tomasz CEDRO wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:30 PM Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
>> On 2020-02-20 19:50, Ed Maste wrote:
>>> Modern laptops need an I2C touchpad driver, which isn't in the base
>>> system yet. It's now available in the ports collection and can be
>>> built standalone fairly easily; it works fine on my Lenovo X1 Carbon
>>> 7th generation.
>>
>> I'd be very interested in that - can you provide a more specific
>> pointer than "in the ports collection"?:-)
>
> +1 for Touchpad / Trackpad support hint.. in a perfect world I would
> love to see this working out of the box :-)

[snip complaints about touchpad not working]

Sorry, but I asked a specific question due to Ed's report that an I2C
touchpad driver was available "in the ports collection", and hoped to
get an answer since I have such a touchpad (on a cheap-o Lenovo
ideapad 320). This is not detected at all by 12.1-RELEASE out-of-box.

Anyway, a bit of searching in the ports tree indicated that it was
sysutils/iichid, and after building/installing/loading it, plus
loading ig4, installing x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput, and adding
the suggested xorg.conf snippet (adjusted per output from 'libinput
list-devices') - the touchpad works! (At least to the extent that I
care to use it.)

It has a kind of strange behavior though, might be a feature:-) -
if I move the cursor and let go of the touchpad without first stopping
the motion, the cursor continues to move on its own...

Thanks a lot for the info, Ed!

--Per