The 5th generation Thinkpad X1 Carbons use Synaptics touchpads accessible
over SMBus/RMI, combined with ALPS or Elantech trackpoint devices instead
of classic IBM/Lenovo trackpoints. Unfortunately there is no way for ALPS
driver to detect whether it is dealing with touchpad + trackpoint
combination or just a trackpoint, so we end up with a "phantom" dualpoint
ALPS device in addition to real touchpad and trackpoint.
Given that we do not have any special advanced handling for ALPS or
Elantech trackpoints (unlike IBM trackpoints that have separate driver and
a host of options) we are better off keeping the trackpoints in PS/2
emulation mode. We achieve that by setting serio type to SERIO_PS_PSTHRU,
which will limit number of protocols psmouse driver will try. In addition
to getting rid of the "phantom" touchpads, this will also speed up probing
of F03 pass-through port.
Reported-by: Damjan Georgievski <redacted>
Suggested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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drivers/input/rmi4/rmi_f03.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
From: Benjamin Tissoires <hidden> Date: 2017-06-07 07:03:05
On Jun 06 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
The 5th generation Thinkpad X1 Carbons use Synaptics touchpads accessible
over SMBus/RMI, combined with ALPS or Elantech trackpoint devices instead
of classic IBM/Lenovo trackpoints. Unfortunately there is no way for ALPS
driver to detect whether it is dealing with touchpad + trackpoint
combination or just a trackpoint, so we end up with a "phantom" dualpoint
ALPS device in addition to real touchpad and trackpoint.
Given that we do not have any special advanced handling for ALPS or
Elantech trackpoints (unlike IBM trackpoints that have separate driver and
a host of options) we are better off keeping the trackpoints in PS/2
emulation mode. We achieve that by setting serio type to SERIO_PS_PSTHRU,
which will limit number of protocols psmouse driver will try. In addition
to getting rid of the "phantom" touchpads, this will also speed up probing
of F03 pass-through port.
Reported-by: Damjan Georgievski <redacted>
Suggested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the extensive commit message :)
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
(tested on a t450s without problems).
Cheers,
Benjamin
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:02:55AM +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
On Jun 06 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
quoted
The 5th generation Thinkpad X1 Carbons use Synaptics touchpads accessible
over SMBus/RMI, combined with ALPS or Elantech trackpoint devices instead
of classic IBM/Lenovo trackpoints. Unfortunately there is no way for ALPS
driver to detect whether it is dealing with touchpad + trackpoint
combination or just a trackpoint, so we end up with a "phantom" dualpoint
ALPS device in addition to real touchpad and trackpoint.
Given that we do not have any special advanced handling for ALPS or
Elantech trackpoints (unlike IBM trackpoints that have separate driver and
a host of options) we are better off keeping the trackpoints in PS/2
emulation mode. We achieve that by setting serio type to SERIO_PS_PSTHRU,
which will limit number of protocols psmouse driver will try. In addition
to getting rid of the "phantom" touchpads, this will also speed up probing
of F03 pass-through port.
Reported-by: Damjan Georgievski <redacted>
Suggested-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Thanks for the extensive commit message :)
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
Thanks Benjamin.
Damjan, could you please try this patch too before I send it Linus-wards.
(tested on a t450s without problems).
Cheers,
Benjamin
Thanks for the extensive commit message :)
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <redacted>
Thanks Benjamin.
Damjan, could you please try this patch too before I send it Linus-wards.
Hi Dmitry,
I'm not sure what to expect from the patch?
It didn't change anything for me with the default "modprobe psmouse".
when using `modprobe psmouse synaptics_intertouch=1`, I don't get the
trackpoint (nor its buttons) at all.
$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Synaptics TM3289-002 id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
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damjan