TouchPad: How to drive HID-compliant mouse?

zoujiaqing · Feb 23, 2020

I see my laptop touchpad is HID-compliant mouse!
The TouchPad can't to work.

How to setting it to work?

eternal_noob · Feb 23, 2020

Hi,

have you seen this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad ?

aragats · Feb 23, 2020

Nowadays more and more laptops come with I2C touchpads. If that's your case, you'll have to build and use this driver, since FreeBSD 12.1 doesn't support such devices.
It's straight forward, but you'll have to install FreeBSD sources. However, it may not work with FreeBSD 12.1. In my case I switched to 13.0-CURRENT.

zoujiaqing · Feb 24, 2020

freebsd_noob said:
Hi,

have you seen this: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad ?

Yes, but can't supported it.

zoujiaqing · Feb 24, 2020

aragats said:
Nowadays more and more laptops come with I2C touchpads. If that's your case, you'll have to build and use this driver, since FreeBSD 12.1 doesn't support such devices.
It's straight forward, but you'll have to install FreeBSD sources. However, it may not work with FreeBSD 12.1. In my case I switched to 13.0-CURRENT.

How to enable it from FreeBSD kernel on building?

aragats · Feb 24, 2020

zoujiaqing said:
How to enable it from FreeBSD kernel on building?

You don't have to rebuild the kernel, just get FreeBSD source code, for example:

Code:

svnlite checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.1 /usr/src/

Then get the driver's source code ( git clone ...), build, install and load the driver by running:

Code:

cd iichid
make
make install
kldload iichid

zoujiaqing · Feb 29, 2020

aragats said:
You don't have to rebuild the kernel, just get FreeBSD source code, for example:

Code:

svnlite checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.1 /usr/src/

Then get the driver's source code ( git clone ...), build, install and load the driver by running:

Code:

cd iichid make make install kldload iichid

I change to 13-CURRENT.
kldload iichid is loaded.

TouchPad don't work...

aragats · Feb 29, 2020

zoujiaqing said:
I change to 13-CURRENT, but can't load iichid.

You still have to build it, it's not in the kernel tree yet.
If you already built, you have to provide details about "can't load".

zoujiaqing · Mar 1, 2020

aragats said:
You still have to build it, it's not in the kernel tree yet.
If you already built, you have to provide details about "can't load".

Yes, I build it and loaded it. but not work.