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From: Manoj <manoj.iyer@canonical.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Lenovo X220 Touchpad + Trackpoint BIOS issue workaround ?
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:32:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D9B522B.7080201@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D9B2CD0.20404@canonical.com>

Any thoughts on this one?

Manoj Iyer
Ubuntu/Canonical
Hardware Enablement

On 04/05/2011 09:53 AM, Manoj wrote:
> The Lenovo X220 has a touch pad and a track point. I would like to get
> some clues as to if there is any work around in the kernel for the issue
> I am seeing below:
>
> Case 1: Touchpad and Trackpoint enabled in BIOS.
> ================================================
> In this case the touchpad works correctly, but the trackpoint is not
> detected at all. Some times after random number of reboots, the
> trackpoint will start to respond approximately 15mts after X starts. But
> the mouse will be detected as PS2 Generic Mouse.
>
> Case 2: Touchpad Disabled Trackpoint Enabled in BIOS
> ======================================================
> In this case the trackpoint works as expected, and it is detected as
> TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint.
> [ 9.675396] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as
> /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
>
> I suspect this is a BIOS bug? Is it possible to work around this in the
> kernel?
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-05 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-05 14:53 Lenovo X220 Touchpad + Trackpoint BIOS issue workaround ? Manoj
2011-04-05 17:32 ` Manoj [this message]
2011-04-05 17:39   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-04-05 17:57     ` Manoj
2011-04-05 18:30       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2011-04-05 22:02         ` Manoj
2011-04-05 22:19           ` Manoj
2011-04-05 22:40             ` Manoj
2011-04-06 17:03           ` Manoj
2011-04-06 17:12             ` Dmitry Torokhov

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