Jake,
I'm using OpenBSD 7.0 (i386) on HP Pavilion 15-dw1000nk laptop.
I'll try the solutions you suggested and get back to you shortly.
I agree that the format of the dmesg in my email is not great.
Thank you
Pascal
2 mars 2022, 11:38 de jbauer@paritybit.ca:
> Hey there o/
>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 06:40:42 +0100 (CET)
> pascal <bsd974@tutanota.com> wrote:
>
>> I use CWM on my HP laptop and the touchpad don't work...
>>
>
> What model is your laptop exactly? This is helpful to know just in case
> someone here has the same model and has fixed a similar issue. Also
> just in case, make sure you haven't toggled any touchpad disable
> buttons.
>
>> my dmesg follow:
>> wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0pms0: Elantech Touchpad, version 4, firmware 0x5d4f01
>>
>
> It looks like someone else had this same issue:
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/643862/touchpad-from-hp-laptop-not-working-on-openbsd
>
> And a cursory search found this mail thread talking about adding an
> elan(4) driver:
> https://marc.info/?t=154173445900001&r=1&w=2
>
> It doesn't look like this was incorporated into OpenBSD (yet). If you're
> technically inclined, you could try to compile and run that driver to
> see if it solves your issues (it might need some modifications to work).
> If not, I'm afraid your touchpad is most likely just not supported by
> OpenBSD and you'll have to use an external mouse.
>
> There may be a wsconsctl.conf(5) configuration that could make it
> work, but I don't know enough about that to be helpful.
>
> Also, in the future, it would be helpful to format your dmesg with line
> breaks. It seems like when you copy-pasted it into your email, it was
> just pasted as one big block of text which is hard to read.
>
> --
> Jake
>
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