Dell touchpad not working with evdev

[Johannes Lundberg]

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"?