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symmetria.gop

Hello to all.

I just install FreeBSD 13-Current and I am very happy for that. I would like to ask, if anyone knows, a couple of questions:

a) My (elan) touchpad does not work... is there any solution?
b) using the Fn keys I can increase/decrease volume but NOT the screen brightness. Any idea?

and a naive question (please, excuse me I am a newcomer)

c) is there any way to update the base system? I tried

# freebsd-update fetch/install

with no luck.

Thank you all in advance!
 
If you are a newcomer to FreeBSD, suggest you use a release branch, which is meant for production: 12.1-RELEASE. You can then easily do binary upgrades using the freebsd-update command.
 
If using src to do buildworld, I'm going to recommend Warren Block's quick guide to updating with source. As has been said, in a case like this you're much better off using 12.1-RELEASE at present. CURRENT, while it is a good way to see what will be coming is not supported on these forums, unless you can disguise your question as an I hate Linux thread, somehow.
It also, as you've found, doesn't work with freebsd-update so takes more time to update. Anyway, Mr. Block's guide is at

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/buildworld.html
 
Sevendogsbsd said:
If you are a newcomer to FreeBSD, suggest you use a release branch, which is meant for production: 12.1-RELEASE. You can then easily do binary upgrades using the freebsd-update command.
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The reason why symmetria.gop is using 13.0-CURRENT is because of his Ryzen 7 3700U Vega 10 GPU. That device runs for the time being only on that development branch.
 
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I'd like to note that none of the moderators interfered because it's reasonable to ask about CURRENT in this case as an exeption. Thank you! This thread is solved? symmetria.gop: on 1st post: click "..."->edit thread->prefix: solved.
 
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mjollnir said:
I'd like to note that none of the moderators interfered because it's reasonable to ask about CURRENT in this case as an exeption. Thank you! This thread is solved? symmetria.gop: on 1st post: click "..."->edit thread->prefix: solved.
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Hello. Well, it is partially solved. The 2 first questions have not been answered.
 
Under normal circumstances FreeBSD CURRENT is unsupported here on Forums, Forum rules - Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions, and what is expected from users Tracking a Development Branch.

This thread is to give you a start, but don't be surprised when future threads regarding CURRENT are closed by a moderator. You can get help on freebsd-current@freebsd.org and/or freebsd-questions@freebsd.org lists.

symmetria.gop said:
a) My (elan) touchpad does not work... is there any solution?
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Try one of the search results for "elan elantech touchpad":
forums.freebsd.org

Solved - Synaptics driver not loading (Elantech touchpad)

Hello! I have been desperately trying to get two-finger scrolling working on my fresh FreeBSD installation. Synaptics did the job for me back on GNU/Linux, so I went straight for synaptics on FreeBSD, except it does not seem to load no matter what I do and all the documentation I find on it...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org
Other search results:

elan elantech touchpad site:freebsd.org at DuckDuckGo

html.duckduckgo.com html.duckduckgo.com
symmetria.gop said:
b) using the Fn keys I can increase/decrease volume but NOT the screen brightness. Any idea?
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Try acpi_video(4). backlight(9) hasn't been committed yet to the CURRENT source tree, if you like you can follow the svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list to be informed when it is:

⚙ D26250 Add backlight subsystem

reviews.freebsd.org reviews.freebsd.org

Be advised, sometimes updating CURRENT may break the system, and it's expected from the user to know how to revert to a previous working state. Don't worry, if it's the case, it's not complicated.
 
Prelimininary: Elan & ElanTech are the same. I don't know, I never had such. I can only point you to
  1. TouchPad: echo hw.psm.elantech_support=\"1\" >>/boot/loader.conf (or loader.conf.local)
    sysctl -d hw.psm to see related sysctl(8) knobs ( hw.psm.tap_*).
    Very likely you need to run moused(8) with the -l 2 flag: sysrc moused_flags+=" -l 2". RTFM psm(4) & moused(8) on that.
  2. To activate the brightness keys, I have created a file /usr/local/etc/devd/acpi-video-intel-backlight.conf
    Code: 
    notify 100 {
match "system" "ACPI";
match "subsystem" "Video";
match "type" "brightness";
action "/usr/local/bin/intel_backlight $notify";
};
    Obviously, this only works if you can use an external utility like graphics/intel-backlight for your system. IIRC this is not the only method. You could ask on the mailing list <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>. You have to subscribe before you can post (see @top of the forum page).
  3. Maybe install the acpi_<vendor> kernel module for your system: e.g. sysrc kld_list+=" acpi_ibm" for IBM or Lenovo laptops. ls /boot/kernel/acpi*
Good luck & happy BSD'ing.
 
T-Daemon said:
Under normal circumstances FreeBSD CURRENT is unsupported here on Forums, Forum rules - Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions, and what is expected from users Tracking a Development Branch.

This thread is to give you a start, but don't be surprised when future threads regarding CURRENT are closed by a moderator. You can get help on freebsd-current@freebsd.org and/or freebsd-questions@freebsd.org lists.


Try one of the search results for "elan elantech touchpad":
forums.freebsd.org

Solved - Synaptics driver not loading (Elantech touchpad)

Hello! I have been desperately trying to get two-finger scrolling working on my fresh FreeBSD installation. Synaptics did the job for me back on GNU/Linux, so I went straight for synaptics on FreeBSD, except it does not seem to load no matter what I do and all the documentation I find on it...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org
Other search results:

elan elantech touchpad site:freebsd.org at DuckDuckGo

html.duckduckgo.com html.duckduckgo.com

Try acpi_video(4). backlight(9) hasn't been committed yet to the CURRENT source tree, if you like you can follow the svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list to be informed when it is:

⚙ D26250 Add backlight subsystem

reviews.freebsd.org reviews.freebsd.org

Be advised, sometimes updating CURRENT may break the system, and it's expected from the user to know how to revert to a previous working state. Don't worry, if it's the case, it's not complicated.
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You are very kind and helpful. Most obliged.
 
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