Detachable keyboard / touchpad USB 1018:1006 Star Labs StarLite

[Roger Whittaker]

The keyboard works fine with FreeBSD 14.2, but so far for me the touchpad does not. There's a hardware switch on the F10 key that enables / disables the touchpad on Linux.

(This is a tablet type computer built mainly with a Linux audience in mind.)

hw-probe output is here: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=86df31742e

Can anyone suggest a way to make the touchpad work under FreeBSD?

 

[drr]

There's a hardware switch on the F10 key that enables / disables the touchpad on Linux.

Is this switch linux-specific? Does switching F10 or Fn+F10 produce any output in dmesg?

 

[Roger Whittaker]

Nothing is seen in dmesg when pressing the key. This is true both in Linux and in FreeBSD.

 

[Roger Whittaker]

I also don't see anything in xev when pressing the key. On FreeBSD, the output of xinput list is

⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ System mouse                              id=7    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ GXTP7386:00 27C6:0111 TouchScreen         id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                         id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ System keyboard multiplexer               id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT keyboard                               id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ vendor 0x1018 product 0x1006              id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ GXTP7386:00 27C6:0111 Keyboard            id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]

On Linux the output of xinput list is

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ HID 1018:1006 Mouse                         id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ HID 1018:1006 Touchpad                      id=10    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ HID 1018:1006 Consumer Control              id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ GXTP7386:00 27C6:0111                       id=13    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HID 1018:1006                               id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HID 1018:1006 System Control                id=11    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ GXTP7386:00 27C6:0111 Stylus                id=14    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ GXTP7386:00 27C6:0111 Keyboard              id=15    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel Virtual Buttons                       id=16    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Intel HID events                            id=17    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=18    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HID 1018:1006 Consumer Control              id=19    [slave  keyboard (3)]

 

[JordanG]

Try the command set hw.hid.hmt.debug=6 at the loader prompt and see what messages will appear in dmesg.