Touchpad stopped working after pgk upgrade

[Per olof Ljungmark]

On 2020-04-13 11:05, Morten Bo Johansen via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm rather new to Freebsd and yesterday I did a "pkg upgrade"
> after which the touchpad on my Lenovo R61 is no longer
> responsive. There is also some oddities with my keyboard such
> as the arrow up key not working anymore.
> 
> - Running xev shows no reaction when touching the touchpad.
> - Xorg.0.log shows no errors or warnings.
> - moused is running as I can plug in a USB mouse and have it
>    working.
>    
> I unplugged the usb mouse and ran the command:
> 
>    $ sudo /usr/sbin/moused -p /dev/sysmouse -t auto
>    
> as I surmise that /dev/sysmouse refers to the touchpad(?)
> but moused responds with
> 
>    moused: unable to get status of mouse fd: inappropiate ioctl
>    for device
>    
> The output from Xorg -version:
>    
>     X.Org X Server 1.20.8
>     X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
>     Build Operating System: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p3 amd64
>     Current Operating System: FreeBSD mathilde.mbjnet.dk 12.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64
>     Build Date: 02 April 2020  10:19:53AM
>      
>     Current version of pixman: 0.38.4
>     	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>     	to make sure that you have the latest version.
> 
> The output from uname -mrs:
> 
>     FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p3 amd64
> 
> My desktop system is xfce4, version 4.14.
> 
> About 200 packages were upgraded and I'd love to supply a list
> but I don't know where the log for this is kept(?)
> 
> Anyone to help me getting my touchpad back?
> 

Hello Morten,

Latest xorg changed in how devices are configured and you are not alone. 
There are several threads on the lists and on the forum about it.

Try,
https://www.google.com/search?q=freebsd+xorg+upgrade+keyboard+mouse&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:m&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiR5LmtkeXoAhWQzMQBHfanDlgQpwV6BAhlEB0&biw=1691&bih=919

HTH,

Per