Dell touchpad not working with evdev
Johannes Lundberg
johalun0 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 11:20:57 UTC 2018
Vladimir Kondratyev writes:
> On 2018-03-15 12:45, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>
>>>> Anyone know how I can get my Dell laptop's PS2 touchpad to work with
>>>> evdev? The keyboard, also PS2, works fine.
>>>>
>>>> I tried setting
>>>> hw.psm.elantech_support: 1
>>>> but that didn't help.
>
> Did you try to enable synaptics driver with setting
> hw.psm.synaptics_support: 1
> in /boot/loader.conf?
>
> If you tried and are still 100% sure of elantech than place
> debug.psm.loglevel=5 in /boot/loader.conf
> and send me psm negotiation part of the boot log
>
Thanks for the tips. I will try and get back to you. It might take a
while though because I don't reboot my main dev machine so often :)
>
>> Device: IntelliMouse
>> Kernel: /dev/input/event3
>
> Looks like your touchpad was misdetected as IntelliMouse at boot time
> and left in relative mode.
> Does it work at vt console after "service moused onestart"?
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