Finally got touchpad working on Dell Precision 7520

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 28. Feb 2021, at 14:56, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> 
> Turns out that the touchpad on the Precision 7520 (and likely several
> other "newer" (last few years) laptops uses I2C.
> 
> For stable/12, I had built/installed the sysutils/iichid port;
> iichid is part of base FreeBSD in stable/13 and head.  And while
> the mouse works (under X11 -- not on a vty) in stable/13 & head;
> it still does not work under stable/12.
> 
> I had appended:
> 
> hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1
> iichid_load="YES"
> 
> 
> to /boot/loader.conf for each of stable/12, stable/13, and head.  For
> the latter two, I see several additional kernle modules brought in (such
> as hms.ko, hidmap.ko, and hkbd.ko); I don't see them either in base
> stable/12 or in ports (though I may not know where to look).
> 
> But it's progress!
> 

Hi David,

Did you already try sysutils/iichid on 12? (its functionality was merged into 13 not too long ago).

Cheers,
Michael

p.s. Meant to write you yesterday, but somehow got distracted


> Peace,
> david
> -- 
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