[Patch] psm(4) ClickPad detection (was Re: Lenovo W540 so far)

[Ivan Rokotov]

2014-06-17 19:54 GMT+02:00 Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo at yahoo.com>:
> On 06/17/2014 13:30, Ivan Rokotov wrote:
>> Anyway, I tested your patch. This is from my logs. (It also blocked my
>> keyboard under X - I don't know if I had to rebuild my keyboard and
>> synaptics drivers.)
>
> Weird... shouldn't have any affect on your keyboard...I'm typing on my laptop now!
> Can you grep(1) your kernel messages for 'atkbd' and grep the Xorg log for
> '\(keyboard\|kbd\)'?

Sure.

(Some of the messages are from my attempt to plug in a USB keyboard to
be able to go back to the console. :))

% grep -i '\(keyboard\|kbd\)' /var/log/messages
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: kbd1 at kbdmux0
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)>
port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Jun 17 19:02:24 thor kernel: psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
Jun 17 19:12:16 thor kernel: ukbd0: <GASIA product 0x0022, class 0/0,
rev 1.10/2.10, addr 2> on usbus0
Jun 17 19:12:16 thor kernel: kbd2 at ukbd0
Jun 17 19:12:16 thor devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/syscons setkeyboard /dev/ukbd0'
Jun 17 19:12:27 thor kernel: ukbd0: at uhub0, port 2, addr 2 (disconnected)
Jun 17 19:12:27 thor devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/syscons setkeyboard /dev/kbd0'

% grep -i '\(keyboard\|kbd\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[   368.215] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[   368.224] (II) LoadModule: "kbd"
[   368.225] (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
[   368.225] (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[   368.377] (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
[   368.743] (II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Keyboard

>> In Xorg log I got
>> [   368.692] (--) synaptics: Touchpad0: synaptics touchpad found
>> [   368.692] (--) synaptics: Touchpad0: no supported touchpad found
>> [   368.692] (EE) synaptics: Touchpad0: Unable to query/initialize
>> Synaptics hardware.
>> but again, I didn't recompile any drivers.
>
> Yeah I wanna say that's because xf86-input-synaptics is talking to /dev/psm0
> instead of /dev/sysmouse, but that doesn't sound right.  Anyway that's what I'm
> looking at now - the devd patch to x11-servers/xorg-server, and next is
> x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics.

Good. :)

> If you're handy with code you could probably find the code in xf86-input-synaptics
> that balks at the Synaptics device.  My goal is having the user install these two
> packages on a touchpad laptop and have it just DTRT and correctly load the
> Synaptics driver.

I could probably find that code, but that's all. :) Anyway, as always,
I'm more than willing to test anything you find useful.

Ivan