From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB310C433FE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9250361152 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 09:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S240029AbhIWJIP (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2021 05:08:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56808 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S240019AbhIWJIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2021 05:08:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x434.google.com (mail-wr1-x434.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::434]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EE6BC061756; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x434.google.com with SMTP id i23so15195518wrb.2; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:06:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=W7zJC5aAqnyO98X4K6bFPJj+u1b4jQVw+cClFYWpioo=; b=a9ZHfDLE1htrbTBFgFlzlURyjWeEzYOimdnm96oO8kOOASLQMgVEH+PbCXkqRa1QKa Xo/mhNjZmJCv6//Yr2udOy4RrQmjbr0q5kcBySyqhwmHCWonJlcwwCqZKCCK+CFSp29v ov3qEYsSyjLYIfHE0nIh1soE1ayctAmh2Z0tHgRqzd5fxf0vpFtOJCe5uRJ4S8ZRlmLm 9QbevfW59NDuCI6XfgPIVS/INi9r/M8UFKHlmojz0vYMwRbxZSJh273lYgBTHKizbJeR GE12Hlf0gNNtYLVcD1oFQILaXal7Fz8C9G40Mw0uZ+4A53tnYmRo7jEJdFsIVIoDVL6m Gz7w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=W7zJC5aAqnyO98X4K6bFPJj+u1b4jQVw+cClFYWpioo=; b=pZMaBQAOt0HaU1m7Z32byYeOwEYOLxwbvsHC8tefWntwMNXj7bZlt7OSS7jsZflV+V ry9nmDfpXROnk2txte+rqEgxFloQhiBqCqr560NgA4tZg6ll0sw/sm4jk6/N9xq2KZrf oLr11DG2GzW4rc3P5pvvj9bJ5PYZ72zgLFUMJLoSgL6nbNr+ntrG5scbnW9WDD4y/MML dEpSJkbnVmPPwGRgtG0dyFEYf0IVky0mHk0uCRO2QLgOIo5SLP91DB2HgjIEllGpczxx xD6pAg6pB4tY0PuMF/F80OXQwuVFfCzdQgXdwCxPUm3N012qw/cIJeseTOMI3pMYQtWQ eF9A== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531+CVlVlJtCTfQdbM4rQVGX0E4NsM9nTVL5/k2XvJ21Rv+eHyRC NkOzZwcCOgwaH5wrrh+nO9f+ClBhkP3e55FHX9I= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwmaE0WOKFEdoPl71aerkf8BW4hR1ah2KQpCRQqOoPXwAejh3hHj5VunpFrv94eYrn+kbYy/RR8fKnhNZPGDTc= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:58ec:: with SMTP id f12mr3760465wrd.24.1632388001736; Thu, 23 Sep 2021 02:06:41 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <70cbe360-6385-2536-32bd-ae803517d2b2@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <70cbe360-6385-2536-32bd-ae803517d2b2@redhat.com> From: Andrea Ippolito Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 11:06:05 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Touchpad stickiness on Dell Inspiron/XPS To: Hans de Goede Cc: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, Alex Hung , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org Thanks a lot Hans for your quick reply :) I will indeed proceed to filing a bug as you suggested and hope for the best. Have a nice day! Andrea IPPOLITO Il giorno gio 23 set 2021 alle ore 11:00 Hans de Goede ha scritto: > > Hi Andrea, > > On 9/23/21 10:47 AM, Andrea Ippolito wrote: > > Hello, > > > > has anyone had a chance to have a look at this report, and can help > > making some progress on the investigation? > > > > Please let me know if there are more suitable channels for this, since > > most of the things I see in these mailing lists are patches and code > > reviews, not really reports and discussions around ongoing issues. > > Right, bugs are usually discussed in bugzila, you could consider > filing a bug here: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Drivers > > But I must be honest here, I don't see much progress being made > on this until someone with a significant amount of kernel / hw-enablement > experience gets it hands on one of these models. Either because some > company wants to run Linux on an affected model and ends up paying > someone to look at this, or because someone with the necessary > skills happens to buy one and then gets annoyed enough by this to sink > enough time into the issue to figure things out. > > This hw is still relatively new, so with some luck someone accidentally > fixes this while fixing another issue, which happens to have the > same root cause. > > Short of one of these 2 happening I don't see this getting resolved > anytime soon. By all means, do file a bug for this, I just want to > set expectations about the (un)likelyness of this getting fixed > (or the bug getting much attention in general) beforehand. > > Regards, > > Hans > > > > > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea IPPOLITO > > > > Il giorno ven 27 ago 2021 alle ore 08:57 Andrea Ippolito > > ha scritto: > >> > >> (resending as plain text) > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I hope I find you well. > >> > >> I am writing this to report a touchpad issue faced by me and several > >> other DELL users across several different distros (HW defect has been > >> ruled out by people unable to reproduce on Windows). > >> > >> First thing that came to mind was to report this to the libinput > >> project, which I did here: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/618 > >> > >> A similar report by another user followed shortly after: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/636 (will be > >> closed as dupe eventually, so please keep #618 as reference) > >> > >> Issue has been also reported by yet another user on reddit: > >> > >> https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/ofbzg3/dell_xps_15_9510_experience/h5ddy07/ > >> and https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/ofbzg3/dell_xps_15_9510_experience/h5zjwc8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 > >> > >> And finally, I have reported it on the DELL user forums (no help > >> whatsoever from DELL): > >> > >> https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Tiger-Lake-DELL-Inspiron-Touchpad-Cursor-temporarily-drops/m-p/8021753#M126292 > >> > >> The investigation on the libinput side appears to be complete, as > >> maintainers didn't spot anything weird there (also, the issue is also > >> reproducible with the synaptics lib, suggesting that this might be > >> lower level). > >> > >> Robert Martin suggested to raise this to you now, as per comment: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/618#note_1042277 > >> > >> I'm kind of new to Linux mailing lists and bug reporting, so please > >> forgive me if I'm violating some rules or etiquette, I'd be glad to > >> rectify if that's the case. > >> > >> I also don't know what is the best way to keep the conversation going, > >> e.g. if there's an issue tracker or instead mailing lists are the > >> preferred choice. > >> > >> You should find some interesting data in the above mentioned reports > >> already, if not, please don't hesitate to let me know or chime in on > >> libinput issue #618 directly. > >> > >> Thanks a lot in advance. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Andrea IPPOLITO > > >