psm(4) doesn't recognize the Elantech touchpad

Johannes Lundberg johalun0 at gmail.com
Sat May 26 19:52:13 UTC 2018


Yuri writes:

> FreeBSD is installed on Lenovo Ideapad 320-15AST. Based on several web 
> hits, this model contains the Elantech touchad.
>
> There is hw.psm.elantech_support=1 in /boot/loader.conf. This is 
> supposed to make the psm(4) driver to pick it up and create /dev/psm0, 
> but this doesn't happen, and there is no /dev/psm* device.
>
>
> How to troubleshoot this?
>

Hi!
Try with
hw.psm.synaptics_support=1
in /boot/loader.conf.

Worked for me to get a PS/2 trackpad working with evdev.

>
> Yuri
>
>
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