Re: Lenovo Yoga 13 touchpad regression

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue May 07 2013 - 14:44:21 EST


On 05/06/2013 11:05 PM, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:25 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

The touchpad on Lenovo Yoga 13 seems to have broken some time between 3.4
and the current kernel. The dmesg is full of spewage:

[ 256.246481] atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e03e <keycode>' to make it
known.
[ 256.251473] atkbd serio0: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code
0xbe on isa0060/serio0

... about once per second; I am wondering if the touchpad is spewing output
onto the keyboard channel or if there is something else wrong.

From googling around this looks like a Synaptics unit.

Is it being detected by the ALPS driver? If so, did it use the ALPS
driver in 3.4?

alps.c was changed to identify several new models, but PS/2 touchpad
identification uses "magic knock sequences" which may be prone to
false positives. This is something we should watch for.


This is how it is detected:

[ 1.843709] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 8.1, id: 0x1e2b1, caps: 0xd00223/0x840300/0x123c00, board id: 1800, fw id: 1148377
[ 1.902569] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input3

I think this is the Synaptics driver as opposed to ALPS.

What is really bizarre is that some time today the touchpad spontaneously started to work. However, after a reboot it no longer worked again. This is on 3.8.11. The keycode spewage continued, however.

-hpa

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