Dell touchpad not working with evdev

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Thu Mar 15 09:39:10 UTC 2018



> On 15. Mar 2018, at 10:33, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Anyone know how I can get my Dell laptop's PS2 touchpad to work with
> evdev? The keyboard, also PS2, works fine.
> 
> I tried setting
> hw.psm.elantech_support: 1
> but that didn't help.
> 
> /Johannes

Did you build xorg with udev support (and without devd) and a custom kernel with evdev support?

You can find details on how to do this here (it’s a few months old at this point, but should still apply for the most part): https://blog.grem.de/pages/t470s.html

Best,
Michael

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