Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[René Ladan]

On 08-01-2018 21:23, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>
>> 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.
Ah, I installed a custom xorg-server and kernel but probably forgot to
select UDEV in xorg-server. I'll try that first.

René