Touchpad not working in 14.1-RELEASE

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KenGordon

I have just completed the installation of FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE on an old ACER Aspire 1 laptop. Everything went well, except that the touchpad won't work at all.

At this point, I am suspecting that the hardware is at fault, but I don't know this for sure.

I originally had FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE on it, and the touchpad worked fine then. I nuked the HD and did a completely new install.

Plugging in an external USB mouse works just fine.

rc.conf contains the command moused_port=/dev/psm0

The mouse is a Synaptics.

I also installed a MATE desktop. Xwindows doesn't recognize the touchpad either.

Any ideas?

Ken Gordon
 
Ooops! I see that I wrote 14.1 in the title of this post, but I fat-fingered it: it should be 14.2 in that title. :rolleyes:

Ken Gordon
 
Do you see something as below in the output of dmesg or in /var/log/messages?
Code: 
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 15.0.
psm0: model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0
I do not have such an entry:
KenGordon said:
rc.conf contains the command moused_port=/dev/psm0
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chrbr said:
Do you see something as below in the output of dmesg or in /var/log/messages?
Code: 
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 15.0.
psm0: model Synaptics Touchpad, device ID 0
I do not have such an entry:
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Yes. I'll post that portion of dmesg -a | more later today. I am working on another old laptop for a friend at the moment. Thank you for your input.

Ken Gordon
 
Dear Ken,
just for interest I have enabled moused in /etc/rc.conf including the line you have provided. I did that on two laptop running FreeBSD-14.2 RELEASE. With both systems I have the mouse pointer on the console and I can move it around. On X11 both systems worked as usual, no issue with the touchpad.

I have connected no additional mouse. Both laptop use the i915kms driver. i915kms and load acpi_video are invoked by a kld_line in /etc/rc.conf. This means that I cannot reproduce the issue.
 
Crapola! Now I am getting a "Panic: page fault" error on the different laptop I am trying to configure.! If it isn't one thing it's another. Oh, well... :mad:

Ken Gordon
 
chrbr said:
Dear Ken,
just for interest I have enabled moused in /etc/rc.conf including the line you have provided. I did that on two laptop running FreeBSD-14.2 RELEASE. With both systems I have the mouse pointer on the console and I can move it around. On X11 both systems worked as usual, no issue with the touchpad.

I have connected no additional mouse. Both laptop use the i915kms driver. i915kms and load acpi_video are invoked by a kld_line in /etc/rc.conf. This means that I cannot reproduce the issue.
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Thanks for the info. While trying to install desktop-installer, I briefly saw a message telling me that activating moused can interfere with the touchpad, and it mentioned something one can do about that, but the message was so brief that I couldn't get it all. Unless someone can tell me where (if anywhere) those messages are stored, I am stuck for the moment.

Ken Gordon
 
chrbr said:
Dear Ken,
just for interest I have enabled moused in /etc/rc.conf including the line you have provided. I did that on two laptop running FreeBSD-14.2 RELEASE. With both systems I have the mouse pointer on the console and I can move it around. On X11 both systems worked as usual, no issue with the touchpad.

I have connected no additional mouse. Both laptop use the i915kms driver. i915kms and load acpi_video are invoked by a kld_line in /etc/rc.conf. This means that I cannot reproduce the issue.
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Thanks for the info. While trying to install desktop-installer, I briefly saw a message telling me that activating moused can interfere with the touchpad, and it mentioned something one can do about that, but the message was so brief that I couldn't get it all. Unless someone can tell me where (if anywhere) those messages are stored, I am stuck for the moment.

Ken Gordon
KenGordon said:
Crapola! Now I am getting a "Panic: page fault" error on the different laptop I am trying to configure.! If it isn't one thing it's another. Oh, well... :mad:

Ken Gordon
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FYI, the laptop I am trying to configure is an old Toshiba Satellite. I have always considered this particular machine to be a piece of junk, but I thought I might try to use it for some non-important functions. Perhaps the reason I am having issues with it is that I installed powerd and that won't work with this piece of junk.

Anyway, I suppose I should start another thread on THIS issue.

Thanks,

Ken Gordon
 
KenGordon said:
Thanks for the info. While trying to install desktop-installer, I briefly saw a message telling me that activating moused can interfere with the touchpad, and it mentioned something one can do about that, but the message was so brief that I couldn't get it all. Unless someone can tell me where (if anywhere) those messages are stored, I am stuck for the moment.

Ken Gordon


FYI, the laptop I am trying to configure is an old Toshiba Satellite. I have always considered this particular machine to be a piece of junk, but I thought I might try to use it for some non-important functions. Perhaps the reason I am having issues with it is that I installed powerd and that won't work with this piece of junk.

Anyway, I suppose I should start another thread on THIS issue.

Thanks,

Ken Gordon
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Never mind. Got that fixed. It was an incorrect video driver.

Back to the original problem.

Ken Gordon
 
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