Asus vivobook 14 E1404FA-TH31 keyboard and trackpad not working, but are recognized.

[Phishfry]

This would be a good time for me to recommend a BIOS upgrade. It really cant hurt with ACPI devices in there.

ACPI quirks seem to be some of my biggest problems. Freshest BIOS is a good start to troubleshooting.

 

[Tracker]

Well it looks like event8 is touchscreen? event5 seems to be what you need.
You might need to make a libinput.conf to steer it. event6 seems to be a pointing device but limited in scope.

Oh damn it sorry, gave output from wrong machine! I apologize - let me get back and paste output. Will delete last reply.

 

[Phishfry]

Lenovo ACPI on ASUS laptop would be odd.

 

[Tracker]

Ok here it is as photos - touchpad and mouse showing as event 5 and 6. Also system mouse as event 1.

Totally upto event 7

Does this help?

 

[Phishfry]

OK so I assume you want Xorg input? Perhaps you should make a file to direct Xorg to the correct event.

Look in /usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory. There are prototypes to use.
/usr/local/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
This file has snippets to copy out depending on device.

Your example file:
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"

Notice the asterisk/wildcard for event. Leave it that way and let it find event.

libinput(4)

man.freebsd.org

 

[Tracker]

OK so I assume you want Xorg input? Perhaps you should make a file to direct Xorg to the correct event.

Just need the trackpad/mouse to work

Your example file:
/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf
Section "InputClass" Identifier "libinput pointer catchall" MatchIsPointer "on" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Driver "libinput"
Notice the asterisk/wildcard for event. Leave it that way and let it find event.

It has the exact file you mentioned with the asterisks mentioned - yet it doesn't work. Am I supposed to change something there?

At this point I'm really wondering if upgrading to freebsd 15 might work, just about to look into doing it.

 

[Phishfry]

Am I supposed to change something there?

You could try event6 looking at your outputs for the trackpad.

Clarify for me. You do have keyboard input under command prompt? Only under Xorg you lose keyboard?

The program /multimedia/webcamd has many Linux drivers inside that can make pointers and trackpads work. I suggest you try it.