Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 8. Jan 2018, at 21:15, René Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 30-12-2017 15:58, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I found some time to play with FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad T470s and
>> I'm quite happy with the results, as all important features work,
>> especially essentials like graphics, touchpad and suspend to RAM.
>> 
>> The configuration is pretty straightforward, but a few things required
>> research (like evdev, udev and libinput), that's why I documented my
>> setup here, hoping that it might help others:
>> 
>> https://blog.grem.de/pages/t470s.html
>> 
> I followed your instructions to try to get the touchpad working on my
> laptop (Acer E5-773G-78RN) but that didn't work.
> 
> libinput-debug-events sees the touchpad (I think, event0) but it doesn't
> respond to it:
> 
> root at e17:~ # libinput-debug-events
> -event0   DEVICE_ADDED     System mouse                      seat0
> default group1  cap:p left scroll-nat scroll-button
> -event1   DEVICE_ADDED     System keyboard multiplexer       seat0
> default group2  cap:k
> -event2   DEVICE_ADDED     AT keyboard                       seat0
> default group3  cap:k
> -event3   DEVICE_ADDED     PixArt USB Optical Mouse, class 0/0, rev
> 1.10/1.00, addr 1 seat0 default group4  cap:p left scroll-nat scroll-button
> 
> I have Xorg.0.log and verbose dmesg available 

Did you install a patched version of xorg (with UDEV enabled) and a custom kernel (device and option added)? What is the output of xinput? What is the output of evemu-record from devel/evemu? Feel free to email me all config- and log files off-list.

Yours,
Michael