Running FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad T470s (success)

[René Ladan]

On 08-01-2018 22:05, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 8. Jan 2018, at 22:02, René Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08-01-2018 21:28, Greg V via freebsd-x11 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/08/2018 23:23, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>>>> On 8. Jan 2018, at 21:15, René Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30-12-2017 15:58, Michael Gmelin wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found some time to play with FreeBSD on a Lenovo Thinkpad T470s and
>>>>>> I'm quite happy with the results, as all important features work,
>>>>>> especially essentials like graphics, touchpad and suspend to RAM.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The configuration is pretty straightforward, but a few things required
>>>>>> research (like evdev, udev and libinput), that's why I documented my
>>>>>> setup here, hoping that it might help others:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://blog.grem.de/pages/t470s.html
>>>>>>
>>>>> I followed your instructions to try to get the touchpad working on my
>>>>> laptop (Acer E5-773G-78RN) but that didn't work.
>>>>>
>>>>> libinput-debug-events sees the touchpad (I think, event0) but it doesn't
>>>>> respond to it:
>>>>>
>>>>> root at e17:~ # libinput-debug-events
>>>>> -event0   DEVICE_ADDED     System mouse                      seat0
>>>>> default group1  cap:p left scroll-nat scroll-button
>>>>> -event1   DEVICE_ADDED     System keyboard multiplexer       seat0
>>>>> default group2  cap:k
>>>>> -event2   DEVICE_ADDED     AT keyboard                       seat0
>>>>> default group3  cap:k
>>>>> -event3   DEVICE_ADDED     PixArt USB Optical Mouse, class 0/0, rev
>>>>> 1.10/1.00, addr 1 seat0 default group4  cap:p left scroll-nat
>>>>> scroll-button
>>>>>
>>>>> I have Xorg.0.log and verbose dmesg available
>>>> Did you install a patched version of xorg (with UDEV enabled) and a
>>>> custom kernel (device and option added)? What is the output of xinput?
>>>> What is the output of evemu-record from devel/evemu? Feel free to
>>>> email me all config- and log files off-list.
>>
>> Hmm, there is no option UDEV in 'make config' for xorg-server, only DEVD
>> (default) and HAL?
> 
> Did you path xorg-server like described? Maybe you applied "patch" in the wrong directory. If you're struggling I can send you the patched port skeleton directly.
> 
Ah, I inserted the patch files into the files/ directory, which does not
work of course.

René

> Best,
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>> If libinput doesn't list it, it's not time to mess with xorg yet :)
>>>
>>> I guess EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled since there's a "PixArt USB Optical
>>> Mouse" (ums) device.
>>>
>> That PixArt thing is physical USB mouse, which always works ;)
>>
>>> Is the psm module loaded? Is there anything in dmesg about psm?
>>
>> Not currently I think:
>> rene at e17:~ % grep -i psm /root/dmesg-v-20180108
>> psm0: unable to allocate IRQ
>> rene at e17:~ % kldstat -v|grep psm
>>        439 acpi/psmcpnp
>>        438 isa/psmcpnp
>>        437 atkbdc/psm
>> rene at e17:~ % ls /boot/kernel/*psm*
>> ls: No match.
>> rene at e17:~ %
>>
>> René
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