Re: Acer C720 and NetBSD 7 RC 1

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150705080105.GA5994%SDF.ORG@localhost>, James Crace  <jmz%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I'm a newcomer to NetBSD. I'm planning on picking up a refurbed Thinkpad 
>but for the moment I wanted to try NetBSD on an Acer C720 I had sitting 
>around. 
>
>The install was pretty painless, completed successfully. The only issue is 
>the touchpad not working. FreeBSD hung on the very first prompt. I was 
>pretty excited when NetBSD booted into X. Someone on reddit suggested I 
>post my dmesg and experience to this list, so here it is: 
>http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2764
>
>If anyone has suggestions on how to get it working I'd love to hear it. I 
>know DragonflyBSD has gotten it to work, but I'm not sure if I can config 
>something to fix it or if I'll have to pray and wait for someone to write 
>a driver.

Well, your best bet for now is to get a cheap usb mouse... Or port the
dragonfly driver from this message:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-June/050771.html

christos