Touchpad is not detected on Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IIL05 Core i3-1005G1

[Kuro07]

Hello,

I've installed Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon 64bit on my Lenovo IdeaPad 3 14IIL05 with a Core i3-1005G1. The touchpad was not being detected. I tried installing the synaptics library as per the release notes and it wasn't fixed. I came across this bug report on Ubuntu launchpad. There was a fix commented on it by adding the following "i8042.nopnp=1 pci=nocrs" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. The touchpad now works and gets detected. Is there any way this fix can be incorporated and applied to Linux Mint? The bug also affects Linux Mint 19.3. I initially installed that. Thank you.

Bug Report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1880172

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 wm: muffin 4.6.3 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81WD v: IdeaPad 3 14IIL05 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 3 14IIL05 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0J40679 WIN serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: LENOVO v: EMCN40WW date: 08/10/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 35.8 Wh condition: 35.8/35.3 Wh (102%) volts: 8.6/7.6 
  model: CPT-COS L16C2PB1 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> status: Full 
  cycles: 1 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i3-1005G1 bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ice Lake rev: 5 L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 9523 
  Speed: 1100 MHz min/max: 400/3400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1136 2: 1102 
  3: 1104 4: 1102 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  chip ID: 8086:8a56 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (ICL GT1) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Smart Sound Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:34c8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-52-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i 160MHz Wireless Network Adapter 
  driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 00:14.3 chip ID: 8086:34f0 
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet type: USB driver: ax88179_178a 
  bus ID: 1-9:4 chip ID: 0b95:1790 serial: <filter> 
  IF: enx000ec66f98d8 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.03 TiB used: 6.94 GiB (0.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: PC SN520 SDAPMUW-128G-1101 size: 119.24 GiB speed: 15.8 Gb/s 
  lanes: 2 serial: <filter> rev: 20290001 scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-08Z10 
  size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> 
  rev: 1A05 scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 114.70 GiB used: 6.74 GiB (5.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1 
  ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 203.9 MiB (28.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 976.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 36.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 208 Uptime: 8m Memory: 11.27 GiB used: 1.15 GiB (10.2%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

[Kuro07]

Just a little update. The touchpad also works with just "pci=nocrs"

[petrescs]

Hope not too late to add some info I collected, hope it saves somebody's time.

First, my test laptops were Ideapad 5, same model 14IIL05 (two versions, with i3 and i5). I can only hope this info is still helpful in this case too. I found that most lenovo ideapads share same hw, in this case ELAN Technology.

I have booted and installed LM20 Cinnamon edition without paying too much attention to BIOS default settings. Found that touchpad was completely unresponsive, and there was nothing related to any mouse or touchpad device displayed by xinput. So I had to plug a USB mouse to continue research.

Took almost two days of reading related bugs and proposed fixes (starting from simply blacklisting a module, or adding various kernel parameters, up to recompiling whole kernel from source). Finally, I had the chance to spot and try one of the most simple advice, related to switch default BIOS boot mode from Legacy Support to UEFI only. Restarted and touchpad started working. Xinput hapily reported this device (in my case) as both mouse and touchpad named MSFT0004:00. Hope this simple fix works for others too.

[r0dc]

Thanks, Kuro07,

I just bought a 15IIL05, had the same issue. Following your suggests worked for me. My question is: What documentation did you read through to get this solution? Issues like this have always left me a little flummoxed. Thanks.

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Rod

[alexander_sculptor]

Hello

Having the same problem with Lenovo Ideapad 3 15iiL05, I bought it without an operating system. Touchpad was not detected since the first time I'd turned on the computer and had a usb device plugged in (with Linux Mint 20, 64 bit). Now everything is just perfect except of touchpad.

Would you tell me please how exactly I should switch default BIOS boot mode from Legacy Support to UEFI only? I am completely newbie

[Moem]

Would you tell me please how exactly I should switch default BIOS boot mode from Legacy Support to UEFI only? I am completely newbie

Hello! That is a new question, and as such it deserves a new topic. Go ahead and start one.

[Federicomr]

I recently bought a Lenovo ideapad 3 and i had this same problem. Modify the /etc/default/grub parameter indicated above and it worked.

[capecuddy]

How do I accomplish that parameter adjustment? New kid.

[MarcasNC98]

Just chiming in to say thank you so much. I scoured the internet for the past day looking for a fix to this issue and tried every single solution possible.

Tried your solution and it worked immediately.

I'm going to update my own post as solved and add your solution.

Cheers.