Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Apr 2018 14:05:29 -0700 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Sony Vaio VGN-CS31S touch sensor buttons breaking touchpad |
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 10:39:59PM +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: > On Sunday 01 April 2018 23:21:55 Ondrej Zary wrote: > > Hello, > > I got a Sony Vaio VGN-CS31S laptop with Synaptics touchpad that exhibits > > weird behavior. It seems to work until I touch the "Touch Sensor Buttons" > > bar above the keyboard - then the buttons start to act weirdly: click or > > remain pressed (sometimes it breaks even without touching the bar). > > > > It seems to be a known problem with VGN-CS series: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug > >/774877 https://wiki.freegeekvancouver.org/article/Laptop_Troubleshooting > > (mentions nasty partial workaround: psmouse.resetafter=1) > > > > Many models of the VGN-CS series have the Touch Sensor Buttons: > > ftp://124.40.41.224/PUB/MANUALS/SWT/Z009/Z009690111.PDF > > > > From the hardware side (can be found in MBX-196 Quanta GD2 schematic), the > > touch bar is a separate PS/2 device connected to third PS/2 port of the EC > > (Embedded Controller) WPC775L. The touchpad is on the 1st PS/2 port, 2nd > > port is unused. However, the i8042 does not seem to support multiplexing, > > the firmware probably combines the data internally somehow. > > Good news: it supports multiplexing but i8042_nomux is set because of: > /* > * Most (all?) VAIOs do not have external PS/2 ports nor > * they implement active multiplexing properly, and > * MUX discovery usually messes up keyboard/touchpad. > */ > .matches = { > DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Sony Corporation"), > DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "VAIO"), > }, > in drivers/input/serio/i8042-x86ia64io.h > (How can this be modified to exclude VGN-CS series?)
I guess we'd need a whitelist for MUXes, because older VAIOs would behave really really badly when one tried to probe for active multiplexing...
If you enable MUX, does it survive suspend/resume?
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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