Synaptics clickpad issue, which package to report?
Greetings. I've asked about this before but I'll be a little more concise.
I'm on trixie and I've been having an issue with my Synaptics clickpad,
as its functionality right now is largely limited: only cursor moving,
tapping to click, left-clicking and right-clicking; clicking in the
middle no longer detected as left-click, and absolutely no detection of
multiple finger gestures. I want to report this as a bug, but I am not
sure if this is a kernel, libinput or other issue. So some info on the
problem...
It had been working fine up until August 9th. While still on Bookworm, I
was preparing to upgrade to Trixie. I MIGHT have made an upgrade to
Bookworm's latest version that MIGHT have included a libinput or kernel
upgrade (speculating). At one point, my laptop's battery died. After
booting it back up, it started to behave as described before.
I was on kernel 6.1.0-37. I tried using the previous version (6.1.0-35)
which seemed to temporarily fix it. I upgraded to Trixie and booted with
its newer 6.12 kernel, only to see the issue back again; also, 6.1.0-35
no longer worked as a fix.
Running 'libinput-debug-events' on a headless tty doesn't detect
anything more than GNOME already does.
As of now, the only hint of where the issue might come from comes from
dmesg.
[ 2.218537] i2c i2c-1: SMBus Timeout!
[ 2.218579] i2c i2c-1: Failed reset at end of transaction (01)
[ 2.218673] i2c i2c-1: Failed! (01)[ 0.221528] ACPI BIOS Error
(bug): Failure creating named object [\_SB.MACO], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
(20240827/dswload2-326)
[ 2.218537] i2c i2c-1: SMBus Timeout!
[ 2.218579] i2c i2c-1: Failed reset at end of transaction (01)
[ 2.218673] i2c i2c-1: Failed! (01)
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Some more info:
From 'libinput list-devices':
Device: SYNA7DB5:00 06CB:7DB7 Mouse
Kernel: /dev/input/event6
Id: i2c:06cb:7db7
Group: 6
Seat: seat0, default
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap button map: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *button
Scroll button: BTN_RIGHT
Scroll button lock: disabled
Click methods: none
Clickfinger button map: n/a
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: flat *adaptive custom
Rotation: n/a
Area rectangle: n/a
Device: SYNA7DB5:00 06CB:7DB7 Touchpad
Kernel: /dev/input/event7
Id: i2c:06cb:7db7
Group: 6
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 103x75mm
Capabilities: touch
Tap-to-click: n/a
Tap-and-drag: n/a
Tap button map: n/a
Tap drag lock: n/a
Left-handed: n/a
Nat.scrolling: n/a
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: identity matrix
Scroll methods: none
Scroll button: n/a
Scroll button lock: n/a
Click methods: none
Clickfinger button map: n/a
Disable-w-typing: n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles: n/a
Rotation: 0.0
Area rectangle: n/a
Some other relevant system info:
Swift SF315-41G (V2.12)
Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64
GNOME 48.3 with Mutter (Wayland)
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Thanks for your help.
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