Bug 1475003

Summary:	Thinkpad T460s touchpad unusable due to phantom pointer stick movements
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	J. Bruce Fields <bfields>
Component:	libinput	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	26	CC:	jpokorny, peter.hutterer
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Description J. Bruce Fields 2017-07-25 20:07:17 UTC

Out of the box the touchpad on the T460s is extremely hard to use: it frequently stops registering movement, causing nearly constant stop-and-go cursor movement.

  echo "120" > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity

appears to cure the symptoms.

It seems that what happens is the touchpad is temporarily disabled each time pointing stick movement is detected.  With the sensitivity set too high, there are frequent false positives.

Several users have confirmed the problem and the above workaround.

Comment 1 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2017-07-26 11:46:06 UTC

Related to that observation, the trackpoint seems to be indeed
acting unexpectedly with the enforced "sensitivity" (T460p model,
for a variation) of 200.  I use that device solely when I need to move
the cursor, avoiding touchpad most of the time.  What I was disturbed
with was that sometimes the cursor did not stop when it was supposed
to (trackpoint released), moving a bit erratically (not exactly
following the previous trajectory) and that caused me to intervene
with trackpoint again, which sometimes barely helped.  Sometimes
I was also fighting with the direction of the movement as my intention
was not followed precisely.

Using value of 120 per above helped me as well.

I think it is broken by design to have udev rules constructed with
generic wildcards rather than with conservative ones/enumeration,
because no one except for, say, Lenovo executive, can be sure that
future models matching the wildcard will be eligible for the same
treatment of the parameters like the sensitivity of the trackpoint,
which is what currently happens if I understand it correctly:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v234/hwdb/70-pointingstick.hwdb#L118

Relevant bug from the past: [bug 1200717].

Comment 2 Jan Pokorný [poki] 2017-10-02 12:38:52 UTC

Note sure if there was any targeted change, but I have to applaud
to the way how freshly updated:
- libinput 1.8.901-1.fc28
- systemd-udev 234-8.fc28
- kernel 4.14.0-0.rc2.git4.1.fc28
behaves wrt. the trackpoint out of the box now.  Thanks!

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