Touchpad drivers

[mrmajik45]

When using my touchpad it will stop responding every so often, if I set my touchpad as a PSMouse with

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

it doesn't freeze but it doesn't have the ability to 2-finger scroll or tap to click. I want to know if there are Drivers for my touchpad that don't have that freezing issue but still have normal functionality (Manufactored drivers?)

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System:    Host: Ghostslayer-Pavilion-x360 Kernel: 5.0.0-16-generic x86_64 bits: 64
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[MrEen]

When using my touchpad it will stop responding every so often, if I set my touchpad as a PSMouse with

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

it doesn't freeze but it doesn't have the ability to 2-finger scroll or tap to click. I want to know if there are Drivers for my touchpad that don't have that freezing issue but still have normal functionality (Manufactored drivers?)

Notice anything missing from your post?

[mrmajik45]

(Insert GTA "Aw crap here we go again" meme)

[MrEen]

See if this helps: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection

Scroll down to In case your Touchpad stops working after a while

[mrmajik45]

Thing is, it will stop for a moment and randomly be usable again.

[MrEen]

Have you played with the settings at all? Someone that knows touchpad stuff may want to see the output of egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan' /proc/bus/input/devices

[mrmajik45]

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N: Name="SYNAPTICS Synaptics Touch Digitizer V04"
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

[MrEen]

Here's something I didn't think about.

Does your keyboard have any function keys for enabling/disabling the touchpad? If yes, have you tried those when it stops working?

[mrmajik45]

I don't have a key on my keyboard for the touchpad

[drwho]

I posted about the random freezing problem of the touchpad on a Lenovo Ideapad 320, about a year ago. I tried many suggestions from this and other forums, but nothing fixed it; so I decided it must be a bug and to just wait patiently for a fix. Unfortunately, even though I have installed all automatic updates including several kernel updates. nothing fixed the problem. It has in fact seemingly gotten worse after the latest batch of updates, which included a new kernel (4.15.0-51) and an update to the X system. Now the cursor (when it isn't frozen) jumps around in a weird manner when moving it with the touchpad. Apparently, getting touchpads to work properly isn't an easy thing but I am still hoping for a miraculous update that will fix it.

[mrmajik45]

Anything?

[MrEen]

What's the output from apt policy xserver-xorg-input-synaptics?

[mrmajik45]

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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
  Installed: 1.9.0-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.9.0-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.9.0-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[MrEen]

Damn. I was hoping you didn't have it installed.

[mrmajik45]

"You got bamboozled!" - Mirage.

[mrmajik45]

Erm.

[MrEen]

How 'bout grep -i "Using input driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

[mrmajik45]

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[     7.899] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
[     7.925] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Video Bus'
[     7.962] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Power Button'
[     7.991] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'HP Truevision HD: HP Truevision'
[     8.029] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'SYNAPTICS Synaptics Touch Digitizer V04'
[     8.200] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'Intel Virtual Button driver'
[     8.226] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[     8.242] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[     8.323] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'HP Wireless hotkeys'
[     8.361] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'HP WMI hotkeys'
[  4740.864] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[  4784.559] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 10800.076] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 12321.168] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 12637.660] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'PS/2 Generic Mouse'
[ 13223.962] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 19683.770] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
[ 31989.950] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'

[MrEen]

You might want to try the libinput or evdev drivers as per the release notes here

Touchpad drivers
The default touchpad driver in this edition is "libinput" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-libinput package).

If you experience problems with it, you can switch to another driver called "synaptics" (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package).

To know which driver is used by your input devices, run the following command:

grep -i "Using input driver" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
When both drivers are installed, "synaptics" takes priority.

To switch to the "synaptics" driver, install it with the command:

apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Then log out and log back in.

To go back to using "libinput", simply remove the "synaptics" driver:

apt remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Then log out and log back in.

Note: You can also try installing the "evdev" driver (provided by the xserver-xorg-input-evdev).

[mrmajik45]

I keep seeing this in dmesg:

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[  106.268522] psmouse serio1: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 5 bytes away.
[  106.801977] psmouse serio1: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
[  107.585673] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5690], y [..4706]
[  107.627246] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried min coordinates: x [1300..], y [1234..]

Both with or without synaptics.

Or, as patrick would say when selling chocolate: "With or without nuts"