Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[René Ladan]

On 08-01-2018 21:28, Greg V via freebsd-x11 wrote:
> 
> On 01/08/2018 23:23, 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.

Hmm, there is no option UDEV in 'make config' for xorg-server, only DEVD
(default) and HAL?

> If libinput doesn't list it, it's not time to mess with xorg yet :)
> 
> I guess EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled since there's a "PixArt USB Optical
> Mouse" (ums) device.
>
That PixArt thing is physical USB mouse, which always works ;)

> Is the psm module loaded? Is there anything in dmesg about psm?

Not currently I think:
rene at e17:~ % grep -i psm /root/dmesg-v-20180108
psm0: unable to allocate IRQ
rene at e17:~ % kldstat -v|grep psm
		439 acpi/psmcpnp
		438 isa/psmcpnp
		437 atkbdc/psm
rene at e17:~ % ls /boot/kernel/*psm*
ls: No match.
rene at e17:~ %

René
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