Problem with touchpad

abi abi at abinet.ru
Tue Aug 30 06:43:34 UTC 2016


How can it be - all devices attached to one devd node? What if I want 
different drivers? synaptics for touchpad and generic mouse for USB ? 
Not in this particular case, but generally speaking.


On 29/08/2016 19:19, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> I never used the psm device directly with X.org, because /dev/sysmouse 
> (which operated by moused) is the the standard, multiplexed interface 
> for mice and touchpads. Every touchpand and mice attached will be 
> handled by moused.
>
> Take out all moused -related stuff from your rc.conf, remove ALL your 
> X.org input device configuration. Then try again. Ie. don't touch the 
> vanilla settings.
>
> USB mice work out of the box without any configuration. Devd will 
> notify X.org, which then configures the mice etc.
>
> abi kirjoitti 29.08.2016 16:34:
>> I'm not sure what is attached to /dev/sysmouse
>>
>> I suspect USB one, but I disabled sysmouse in xorg configuration for 
>> sure
>>
>> Section "InputClass"
>>     Identifier "VanishBastardo"
>>     MatchDevicePath "/dev/sysmouse"
>>     Option "Ignore" "true"
>> EndSection
>>
>> and
>>
>> moused_enable="NO"
>> moused_nondefault_enable="NO"
>>
>> [    17.061] (II) config/devd: adding input device (null) 
>> (/dev/sysmouse)
>> [    17.061] (**) sysmouse: Ignoring device from InputClass 
>> "VanishBastardo"
>>
>> So, if both devices clashing for 1 node, no driver attached to it
>> anyway. Also, I tried CURRENT - it has the same problem.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/08/2016 15:16, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
>>> With a PS2 touchpad you could also try this:
>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/x.html#idp64092272
>>>
>>> abi kirjoitti 27.08.2016 03:51:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have strange issue with Dell XPS 13 (Skylake) touchpad. It works
>>>> until xorg restart. After restart, buttons become unresponsive, the
>>>> most common is if button remains pressed somehow.
>>>>
>>>> I found simple workaround - toggle touchpad with xinput. However, on
>>>> xinput enable system hangs - screen is not updated and it ignores
>>>> keyboard input until I use touchpad. After that, system and touchpad
>>>> becomes operational. Until restart.
>>>>
>>>> Synaptics driver has the same problem.
>>>> Touchpad in generic ps/2 mode (without hw.psm.synaptics_support=1) 
>>>> works.
>>>>
>>>> I made a search and found this commit
>>>> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=281440 in
>>>> CURRENT release notes. However it's pretty old and should be included
>>>> in 11.
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 11.0-RC1
>>>> Xorg log 
>>>> https://gist.github.com/abishai/844c3221d9388a5a6f8c65bd13ad2d88
>>>> USB receiver is generic wireless mouse
>>>> Mouse is touchpad
>>>> No idea what is sysmouse. I have moused_enable="NO" and
>>>> moused_nondefault_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf
>>>>
>>>> I appreciate any help or suggestions :)
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