Touchpad/trackpad not working

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 08/12/15 09:28, Anders Bolt-Evensen wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2015, at 05:03 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
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>> On 08/11/15 16:40, Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-usb wrote:
>>>
>>> hid_is_mouse() is failing to tell that your Synaptics USB HID device is
>>> a mouse, but /only/ when there's no other USB (HID) device on that USB
>>> bus (usbus0). I suspect it has to do with the hid_get_item() warnings
>>> about chopping stuff off. I can't tell from the source code for
>>> hid_get_item() (a 313-line function) why it's behaving that way, or why
>>> a totally different HID device (Logitech mouse) causes it to behave
>>> differently for this HID device (Synaptics touchpad). I've added
>>> freebsd-usb@ to see if they know what's going on.
>>>
>>> ajenkins at kubuntu-ajenkins:~/Downloads$ grep usbus0
>>> dmesg_with_external_usb.txt
>>> usbus0: waiting for BIOS to give up control
>>> usbus0 on xhci0
>>> random: harvesting attach, 8 bytes (4 bits) from usbus0
>>> usbus0: 5.0Gbps Super Speed USB v3.0
>>> ugen0.1: <0x8086> at usbus0
>>> uhub0: <0x8086 XHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 3.00/1.00, addr 1> on
>>> usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus2 usbus1 usbus0
>>> ugen0.2: <Logitech> at usbus0
>>> ukbd0: <Logitech USB Receiver, class 0/0, rev 2.00/12.01, addr 1> on
>>> usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> ugen0.3: <Generic> at usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> ugen0.4: <vendor 0x06cb> at usbus0
>>> ugen0.5: <Chicony Electronics Co.,Ltd.> at usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> [snip]
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> Root mount waiting for: usbus0
>>> ugen0.6: <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected)
>>> ums0: <Logitech USB Receiver, class 0/0, rev 2.00/12.01, addr 1> on
>>> usbus0
>>> ums1: <vendor 0x06cb product 0x2970, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.08, addr
>>> 3> on usbus0
>>> uhid0: <Logitech USB Receiver, class 0/0, rev 2.00/12.01, addr 1> on
>>> usbus0
>>>
>>> What possessed the laptop manufacturer to hang the Synaptics touchpad
>>> device off a USB 3.0 controller is beyond me... I have problems booting
>>> FreeBSD off USB 3.0 mass storage devices.
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does your mouse only fail to work in X-org, or also the console?
>>
>> Run "usbdump -i usbusX -f Y -s 65536 -vvv" to catch USB events for
>> ugenX.Y. That might give some further clues.
>>
>> If using X.org, do you use hald or devd backend?
>>
>> --HPS
> 
> It fails in both X-org and console.
> In X, recently I've only been using devd.
> When trying to use the command usbdump -i usbus0 -f 3 -s 65536 -vvv on
> my touchpad (without any external usb receiver connected), nothing
> happens at all. No left-click, no right-click, nothing.
> However, if I insert an external USB receiver and then reboot the
> computer, the touchpad works just fine in both console and in X-org.
> If I now do the command above, since I've connected the receiver and
> done the reboot, I get the following output (just note that during the
> reboot, the address of the touchpad was changed from ugen0.3 to ugen0.4):
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ktj757okcq61ljc/usbdump_i_usbusX_f_Y_s_65536_vvv.txt?dl=0
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2015, at 05:46 PM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic at sbb.rs> wrote:
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>> What do you have in device.hints?
>>
>> Zoran
>>

When you don't see any activity, can you issue a reset of the touchpad:

usbconfig -d X.Y reset

while "usbdump" is running on the same device?

--HPS