Bug 1425607 - Thinkpad X240 touchpad movement is jumpy and extremely imprecise
Summary: Thinkpad X240 touchpad movement is jumpy and extremely imprecise
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libinput
Version: 25
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-02-21 21:21 UTC by onefreshdude
Modified: 2017-12-12 10:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 1264453
Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-12-12 10:12:36 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
evtest (77.54 KB, text/plain)
2017-02-22 01:26 UTC, onefreshdude
no flags Details
GIF of mouse movement. Jumps when dragging slowly. (51 bytes, text/plain)
2017-02-22 01:48 UTC, onefreshdude
no flags Details

Description onefreshdude 2017-02-21 21:21:56 UTC
Hi, I'm having the exact same issue as Bug #1264453, except on the x240. My touchpad firmware is also on 8.1. Is there anyway this bug fix can be applied to the x240? Thanks for the help.

Comment 1 onefreshdude 2017-02-21 21:53:18 UTC
I followed the same steps, except I changed the "220" in line libinput:name:SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad:dmi:*svnLENOVO:*:pvrThinkPadX220* to 240.

This made the jitter go away, however now the touchpad is much too slow. How could I fix that?

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2017-02-22 00:15:47 UTC
hmm, the 240 doesn't have the same touchpad as the 230, so it isn't affected by the firmware the same way, so I can't recommend using that quirk since that one is specific to that hardware. The x240 has the same touchpad as the T440 which I have in front of me here. What exactly is the problem you're seeing?

Comment 3 onefreshdude 2017-02-22 01:26:24 UTC
Created attachment 1256320 [details]
evtest

Comment 4 onefreshdude 2017-02-22 01:40:58 UTC
When I move my finger on the touchpad very slowly, the cursor will stop moving, and then it will eventually jump to another position.

Makes it very hard to click small things such as the x's on internet browser tabs.

I will try to record a video/gif of it happening if that will help.

Comment 5 onefreshdude 2017-02-22 01:48:33 UTC
Created attachment 1256327 [details]
GIF of mouse movement. Jumps when dragging slowly.

Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2017-02-22 03:31:29 UTC
did you update the firmware at some point? I'm surprised it does that, the 40 series was pretty good but the 50 series has that problem. Either way, I'm currently working on tweaking the pointer acceleration again which makes this problem go away to some degree

Comment 7 onefreshdude 2017-02-22 03:58:16 UTC
I might have automatically done it on Windows through lenovo's updater app. And awesome! Sounds great. I noticed it doesn't do it on the xf86-input-synaptics driver.

Comment 8 Peter Hutterer 2017-02-22 07:00:43 UTC
synaptics has slower acceleration, so you move your finger faster to get the same pointer movement. That papers over the bug (if it's the same as seen on the *50 series). See https://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/libinput-and-lenovo-t450-and-t460.html

Comment 9 Peter Hutterer 2017-02-23 20:24:16 UTC
Please try the scratch build in bug 1415793, thanks

Comment 10 onefreshdude 2017-02-23 22:16:51 UTC
Wow, that's much better. I can now much more accurately hit the small 'x' on chrome tabs now.

The cursor seems to jitter when moving diagonally. It also still jumps but the jumps are much smaller and seem to only happen at the slowest of dragging speeds.

But these issues are very minimal compared to how imprecise it was before I updated. Thanks!

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