I have been using a laptop that is old enough to have a fair number of its components replaced with parts taken from others (mostly of the same model) -- a Dell Precision M4800. And it works well.. but single points of failure do not bring me comfort. :-}
I acquired a refurbished Dell Precision 7520 a while back; it runs FreeBSD just fine, but I was unable to get the built-in touchpad to work until this morning. It turns out that the 7520's touchpad communicates via I2C. I had tried installing the sysutils/iichid port; that seemed to be a bit of progress, as after doing that, and appending: hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 iichid_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, utilities such as libinput(1) and xinput(1) each reported "something" was there that had not been there before, and dmesg mentioned an "hsm0" device (though that didn't show up in /dev). But neither the touchpad nor the buttons actually worked. During my daily update cycle this morning, I was thus quite pleased to note that the mouse was seemed to be working (in X11, anyway) under stable/13 and head (where iichid is part of base). Comparing the kernel modules loaded between stable/12 and stable/13, I see that the latter also includes hms.ko, hidmap.ko, and hkbd.ko. And stable/13 (as well as head) have src/sys/dev/hid/*, which stable/12 does not. (That directory is where (e.g.) hms.c resides.) So: iichid is part of base in stable/13 and head, but available as a port for stable/12. Various devices under src/sys/dev/hid are available in base under stable/13 and head; are they available in some way under stable/12? (Yes, I plan to migrate from stable/12 to stable/13 "soon" -- but not quite yet.) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org It is supremely disingenuous to claim a lack of jurisdiction, then proceed to participate in a decision on the same matter. See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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