Re: Elantech touchpad not working on mainline kernels

Hi Dmitry,

On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:14 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:09 AM Hans Schultz <
hans.schultz@webspeed.dk> wrote:

quoted

On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 10:48 -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

quoted

Hi Hans,

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 2:12 AM Hans Schultz <
hans.schultz@webspeed.dk> wrote:

quoted

Hello,
I have a problem getting my Elantech touchpad to work with the
mainline
kernels, and I need some assistance with the code to resolve the
problem.
The kernels that have tried are 5.9.11 and 5.11.11.

With boot parameters i8042.notimeout i8042.nomux, the touchpad is
detected but does not work. There is absolutely no response from
it
with any hid modules loaded.

It is reported and seen working on a Lubuntu distro (bionic
kernel)
when inserting the i2c_hid module. The insertion of the i2c_hid
module
pulls in the hid_multitouch module when it works, no boot
parameters
necessary.
In the case where it does not work, insering the i2c_hid module
does
not pull in the hid_multitouch module.

I have the bionic kernel code, but I have not as of yet been able
to
detect what makes it work in contrast to the kernel.org kernels.

This I think should lead to a kernel patch.

There is not much to go on with. What is the hardware, your kernel
.config, dmesg from unsuccessful boot? If you have logs from the
working kernel that would help too.

Thanks.

The best info I have on the hardware is from Xorg log with the
working
Lubuntu kernel:
[ 130.980] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 130.982] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 130.982] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for '0X45 0X4C 0X41
0:00
04F3:308C Touchpad'

I might be able to get the kernel messages when inserting the working
module, but I think it will not tell much more.

OK, if you say so. Then the only suggestion I have is to verify that
your kernel config enables all necessary options for your hardware.
I'd double check if you have Designware I2C controller enabled, ACPI
LPSS, etc.

quoted

To me it is clearly a code issue as the working kernel pulls in
hid_multitouch when inserting i2c_hid, while the non-working does
not.

All kernels I have tried up to now from kernel.org do not work. The
latest being 5.13.4.

Thanks.

I have a thread with all the dmesg info for both the working and non-
working cases here :
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/544

Benjamin has also asked for the acpidump info, which is there. (funny
as the responses to my problem come at the same time after a long time.
:-) )

I will check my .config...

Thanks,
Hans