@wangjun
Thank you for sharing the results and investigating this touchpad issue!
One thing confuses me is for the ELAN touchpad, no single interrupt
fires when you put finger on the touchpad while for the Synaptics
touchpad, you still see interrupts firing but with a very rate of ~7Hz.
Judging from the ACPI DSDT tables, different variants of this laptop
model share the same GPIO chip. So this difference is unexpected.
Understanding the difference may help us why the GPIO interrupt
controller is malfunctioning.
Based on your results, I guess the ELAN touchpad somehow de-asserts its
interrupt line connected to the GPIO pin. Could you further do the
following experiment?
The following C program is to let GPIO controller quickly generate some
interrupts then disable the firing of interrupts by toggling pin#130's
direction with an time interval (ms). For the Synaptics touchpad, There
is no interrupt firing unless internal > 120ms. So somehow the GPIO
controller can only generate interrupt when its pin holding the signal
for enough time. My hypothesis is the GPIO is not setup properly so it
stays in a idle state or it's clock frequency is too small (so I don't
think the touchpad issue is caused by mis-configuration of the direction
of the pin). I want to see if the result from the ELAN touchpad would
also support this hypothesis.
1. Find out the reliable way to trigger an interrupt which is crucial for this
experiment.
You told me there will be interrupt firing by simply setting the
pin's direction to "out". You can check it's reliable by following the
steps
a. Don't put your finger on the touchpad
b. Open a terminal window and run `sudo dmesg -W`
c. In another terminal, "cd /sys/class/gpio/gpio386"
e. "echo out > direction" and see if the following dmesg output will
keeping popping out in the previous terminal window
```
[ 138.233653] i2c_hid i2c-MSFT0001:00: i2c_hid_get_input: IRQ triggered
but there's no data
```
d. Then "echo in > direction", now the dmesg output in step 3 should stop
popping out.
f. Repeat step e-d for around 5 times
If you are certain now, use the following C Program,
```c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
void write_to_pin130(char *d, size_t size)
{
int fd;
fd = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio386/direction", O_WRONLY);
write(fd, d, size);
perror("Status:");
close(fd);
}
void toggle_pin130(int interval_ms)
{
struct timespec ts, ts1;
write_to_pin130("out", 3);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
usleep(interval_ms*1000);
write_to_pin130("in", 2);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts1);
printf("Interval: %.1f (real), %d (set)\n",
(ts1.tv_sec-ts.tv_sec)*1000.0+(ts1.tv_nsec-ts.tv_nsec)/1000.0, interval_ms);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct timespec ts;
int interval_ms = atoi(argv[1]);
toggle_pin130(interval_ms);
}
```
For me, it seems it's reliable to toggle the value to trigger a interrupt. You
can follow similar steps to test it,
a. Don't put your finger on the touchpad
b. Open a terminal window and run `sudo dmesg -W`
c. In another terminal, "cd /sys/class/gpio/gpio386"
e. "echo 1 > value" and see if the following dmesg output will keeping
popping up in the previous terminal window
```
[ 138.233653] i2c_hid i2c-MSFT0001:00: i2c_hid_get_input: IRQ triggered
but there's no data
```
d. Then "echo 0 > value", now the dmesg output in step 3 should stop
popping up
f. Repeat step e-d for around 5 times
If the results are positive, use the following C program,
```
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
void write_to_pin130(char *d)
{
int fd;
fd = open("/sys/class/gpio/gpio386/value", O_WRONLY);
write(fd, d, 1);
perror("Status:");
close(fd);
}
void toggle_pin130(int interval_ms)
{
struct timespec ts, ts1;
char d = '0';
write_to_pin130(&d);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
usleep(interval_ms*1000);
d = '1';
write_to_pin130(&d);
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts1);
printf("Interval: %.1f (real), %d (set)\n",
(ts1.tv_sec-ts.tv_sec)*1000.0+(ts1.tv_nsec-ts.tv_nsec)/1000.0, interval_ms);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct timespec ts;
int interval_ms = atoi(argv[1]);
toggle_pin130(interval_ms);
}
```
2. Build (you can simply run `make fire_touchpad_pin_irq.c`) and run it as a
root user
$ sudo ./fire_touchpad_pin_irq N
N is the time interval in ms. You may start with 100 and keep
increasing N it until you see a couple of messages like follows pop up,
[ 138.233653] i2c_hid i2c-MSFT0001:00: i2c_hid_get_input: IRQ
triggered but there's no data
With larger N, you will see more messages popping up one time.
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Title:
MSFT Touchpad not working on Lenovo Legion-5 15ARH05
Status in Pop!_OS:
New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in xserver-xorg-input-libinput package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in linux package in Arch Linux:
Fix Committed
Status in linux package in Fedora:
Confirmed
Status in linux package in openSUSE:
New
Bug description:
Hello
The MSFT touchpad of this Lenovo Legion-5 15ARH05 laptop is not reacting at
all (pointer and click never move when touchpad is touched). This has been
reported by other users in various websites, with various linux systems
including other Ubuntu systems, but I saw no launchpad bug so I post one.
Example of websites covering the issue :
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1253830/lenovo-legion-5-touchpad (exactly
the same laptop)
- https://www.linux.org/threads/lenovo-legion-5-touchpad.29536/ (similar
laptop)
xinput indentifies it as MSFT0001:00 04F3:3140
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ MSFT0001:00 04F3:3140 Touchpad id=17 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ MSFT0001:00 04F3:3140 Mouse id=16 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) Consumer Control id=12 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=15 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=10 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) Consumer Control id=19 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) Wireless Radio Control id=13 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ ITE Tech. Inc. ITE Device(8910) Keyboard id=14 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=18 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave
keyboard (3)]
Thanks a lot for your time. It does not help, but I can confirm what
was reported on askubuntu by another user : the touchpad does work on
Windows.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-image-5.4.0-40-generic 5.4.0-40.44
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: nicolas 1567 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: nicolas 1567 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC2: nicolas 1567 F.... pulseaudio
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jul 10 20:14:25 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-02 (8 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
MachineType: LENOVO 82B5
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-5.4.0-40-generic
root=UUID=d8898017-2821-434e-ab52-fec76ac93106 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-5.4.0-40-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-5.4.0-40-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.187.1
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/12/2020
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: EUCN19WW
dmi.board.asset.tag: NO Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: LNVNB161216
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0J40709 WIN
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: NO Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrEUCN19WW:bd05/12/2020:svnLENOVO:pn82B5:pvrLenovoLegion515ARH05:rvnLENOVO:rnLNVNB161216:rvrSDK0J40709WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLenovoLegion515ARH05:
dmi.product.family: Legion 5 15ARH05
dmi.product.name: 82B5
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_MT_82B5_BU_idea_FM_Legion 5 15ARH05
dmi.product.version: Lenovo Legion 5 15ARH05
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-02 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-050800rc5-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
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