I2C Touchpads on FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT
Why is my touchpad not working? Since I got my laptop I couldn't get the touchpad working on FreeBSD current, no matter what I tried. It happened at first that the intel I2C was not supported, after that, the HID interface for I2C was not working. It is frustrating. How to solve it? The idea came during the FreeBSD's DevSummit before FOSDEM in 2020 when I talked to another FreeBSD developer, Kamila Souckova, to get it fixed (or try it). We knew about a patch under review and, after trying to apply the patch, it failed to compile under FreeBSD 13-CURRENT. We looked for another solution and she found a project in github that seemed promising. So she tried and worked, so I gave it a change and the results are positive: the touchpad is working. Fixing it The solution is easy: clone the repository, build it, install it and configure Xorg to use it. Cloning the repository Just run git clone https://github.com/wulf7/iichid and you'll get the sources locally. Easy, rig