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25.Dd February 27, 2022
26.Dt IETP 4
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm ietp
30.Nd Elantech I2C touchpad device driver
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines into
33your kernel configuration file:
34.Bd -ragged -offset indent
35.Cd "device ietp"
36.Cd "device hidbus"
37.Cd "device hid"
38.Cd "device iichid"
39.Cd "device iicbus"
40.Cd "device evdev"
41
42.Ed
43.Pp
44Alternatively, to load the driver as a
45module at boot time, place the following line in
46.Xr loader.conf 5 :
47.Bd -literal -offset indent
48ietp_load="YES"
49.Ed
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51The
52.Nm
53driver provides support for the Elantech I2C touchpad multi-touch devices
54found in many laptops.
55.Pp
56To get multi-touch device working in
57.Xr X 7 Pq Pa ports/x11/xorg-docs ,
58install
59.Pa ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput .
60.Sh FILES
61.Nm
62creates a pseudo-device file,
63.Pa /dev/input/eventX
64which presents the multi-touch device as an input event device.
65.Sh SEE ALSO
66.Xr hid 4 ,
67.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
68.Xr xorg.conf 5 Pq Pa ports/x11/xorg ,
69.Xr libinput 4 Pq Pa ports/x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput .
70.Sh AUTHORS
71.An -nosplit
72The
73.Nm
74driver was written by
75.An Vladimir Kondratyev Aq Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org .
76.Sh BUGS
77.Nm
78cannot act like
79.Xr sysmouse 4
80