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[32.216.196.135]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-7a9a7945667sm174243185a.4.2024.09.08.19.26.55 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Sep 2024 19:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2024 22:25:58 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why did Synaptics touchpad stop working? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Content-Language: en-US-large From: Jack In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 04abc0ce-3b82-44b9-8e51-62a983a228ec X-Archives-Hash: a2fe8b7a4d4d39088a7f42794b518b77 On 9/8/24 10:20 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning when I booted my Thinkpad T580, the Synaptics touchpad > buttons didn't work at all, and the "pointer" function just barely > worked: the response was slow and jerky with a noticeable delay. > > In order to get it working again, I had to enable some rmi4 stuff in > my kernel config: > > < # CONFIG_RMI4_CORE is not set > --- > > CONFIG_RMI4_CORE=y > > # CONFIG_RMI4_I2C is not set > > CONFIG_RMI4_SMB=m > > CONFIG_RMI4_F03=y > > CONFIG_RMI4_F03_SERIO=y > > CONFIG_RMI4_2D_SENSOR=y > > CONFIG_RMI4_F11=y > > CONFIG_RMI4_F12=y > > # CONFIG_RMI4_F30 is not set > > # CONFIG_RMI4_F34 is not set > > # CONFIG_RMI4_F3A is not set > > # CONFIG_RMI4_F55 is not set > > Apparently, it used to work as a PS/2 mouse, but then it "just quit", > and I hand to enable rmi4 SMBus support. The Gentoo Wiki page didn't > mention the rmi4 options and instead said to enable some I2C HID stuff > that didn't seem to be relevent for my hardware. > > There was a dmsg message that pointed me towards the rmi4 options. > > What's really bugging me is why did it quit working? > > Nothing relevent seems to have been updated recently: > > 1725658908: >>> emerge (1 of 6) dev-libs/libffi-3.4.6 to / > 1725658926: >>> emerge (2 of 6) dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.78.1-r1 to / > 1725658987: >>> emerge (3 of 6) media-libs/graphene-1.10.8-r1 to / > 1725659006: >>> emerge (4 of 6) gui-libs/gtk-4.12.5-r2 to / > 1725659219: >>> emerge (5 of 6) app-crypt/gcr-4.2.1 to / > 1725659258: >>> emerge (6 of 6) app-crypt/pinentry-1.3.0-r3 to / > > 1725762247: >>> emerge (1 of 7) sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20240813_p20240815 to / > 1725762261: >>> emerge (2 of 7) dev-python/jaraco-context-6.0.1 to / > 1725762273: >>> emerge (3 of 7) dev-python/setuptools-73.0.1 to / > 1725762292: >>> emerge (4 of 7) dev-python/idna-3.8 to / > 1725762305: >>> emerge (5 of 7) dev-python/truststore-0.9.2 to / > 1725762317: >>> emerge (6 of 7) gui-libs/gtk-4.14.4-r1 to / > 1725762557: >>> emerge (7 of 7) www-client/google-chrome-128.0.6613.119 to / > > I did boot into Windows yesterday at one point, but I do that fairly > regularly (a few times a month) and it has never caused any problems > in the past. > > As I said, I've got it working again, but I'm baffled what caused it > to stop working. > > -- > Grant Any chance some internal connection has come loose?  How old is the laptop?  I'd probably suspect hardware before software, but I wouldn't put money on anything.