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On Tue, 5 May 2020 14:58:32 +0100 |
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Victor Ivanov <vic.m.ivanov@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> My laptop's trackpad is an ETPS/2 Elantech on a ThinkPad Yoga |
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> 260 (ca. 2016). Every so often it freezes and refuses to respond |
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> to any and all input. The freeze usually lasts for a second or |
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> so, but can sometimes be longer in the range of 10-15 seconds or |
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> even freeze indefinitely until the "psmouse" kernel module is |
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> reloaded. It also experiences "jumping" behaviour, most commonly |
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> encountered when press-holding one of the companion buttons |
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> along with a dragging gesture, but that's not an exclusive |
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> scenario. |
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I experience very similar symptoms on my ThinkPad 13. It doesn't |
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happen often, but it does sometimes happen. |
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> A quick Google search can reveal complaints about this issues |
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> across distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian) that can be traced |
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> back to at least 2012 in various laptop models. There also |
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> appears to be a related upstream kernel bug [1] that has been |
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> left in limbo. |
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I noticed this as well, it's almost certainly a bug in Linux |
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itself which, for some reason, has never been fixed after all |
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these years. I don't think Gentoo can do much about it. |
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Unfortunately I'm not aware of any real solution, but as a |
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workaround, you can unmount and re-mount the psmouse module when |
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the problem occurs (if psmouse is not built compiled as a module, |
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I suggest you do it). At least this is what works for me, YMMV: |
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# modprobe -r psmouse |
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# modprobe psmouse |
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