Bug#1106658: installation-reports: Touchpad not active
Hi Cyril,
On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 09:38:51PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looping in debian-kernel@, context being missing touchpad support on an
> amd64 machine, unless an extra module is added to the installer.
>
> Feel free to steal the bug report away from us and adjust
> debian/installer/modules as you see fit!
>
> Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl> (2025-05-28):
> > On 27/05/2025 19:20, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > It looks like #1104057. Does lsmod show a pinctrl* module on a
> > > system with working touchpad ?
> >
> > I've built a custom installer and `pinctrl-meteorlake` does the trick.
> > With this additional kernel module the touchpad works in the graphical
> > installer.
>
> Checking linux.git, it seems pinctrl modules are only shipped in udebs
> for a single arch:
>
> kibi@tokyo:~/debian-kernel/linux.git (debian/6.12/trixie <)$ git grep pinctrl -- debian/installer/
> debian/installer/modules/arm64/kernel-image:drivers/pinctrl/**
>
> I'm not sure how many pinctrl modules would make sense to ship, or in
> which udeb, for other architectures.
>
> Looking at the amd64 config, the modular ones are:
>
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_ALDERLAKE=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_CS42L43=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_ELKHARTLAKE=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_EMMITSBURG=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_INTEL_PLATFORM=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_JASPERLAKE=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_LAKEFIELD=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_METEORLAKE=m
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_METEORPOINT=m
>
> while the built-in ones are:
>
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_AMD=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_CHERRYVIEW=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_INTEL=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_BROXTON=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_CANNONLAKE=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_CEDARFORK=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_DENVERTON=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_GEMINILAKE=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_ICELAKE=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_LEWISBURG=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_SUNRISEPOINT=y
> CONFIG_PINCTRL_TIGERLAKE=y
Can you double-check if
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1530 make
sense to you?
If yes, feel free to reassign it to src:linux. And then we should mark
it as well as to be backported for 6.12.y for trixie.
Regards,
Salvatore
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