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November 10, 2017 at 10:56 pm #74677
Great post, I have stuck this one in the EZbook 3 Pro thread for others to find.
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Currently testing: LG G8X & Redmi K30November 12, 2017 at 9:55 pm #74808<!–more–>OK I have some bad new and good news. The bad is I lied…it seems the touchpad problem also happens on Antergos and pretty much any other Linux distro/flavor or kernel, it’s just very random/sporadic problem. And it could be based on your notebook version and/or BIOS.
The good news:
Just recently there is a potential Linux Kernel fix (patch) for it so it should be rolled into a new kernel version soon.
If you don’t want to wait, you can patch it yourself if you now how to apply Kernel patches…Nov. 7, 2017, 12:28 p.m.
Patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10046575/
Affects several cheap Apollo Lake based laptops / 2-in-1s…
Cube Thinker, EZBook 3 Pro, T-bao Tbook airNovember 13, 2017 at 9:33 am #74817If you are running Ubuntu, Mint, or another Debian based distro this is a kernel with the patch for the touchpad problem. Please test it if you can. I don’t have a Debian distro installed yet. Note: as far as I know you have to have the rEFInd boot manager installed. The common Grub boot manager in most distros won’t work on the EZbook. Booting with Grub usually results in a frozen black screen.
November 14, 2017 at 7:17 pm #74868Hi!
Confirmed, new kernel has no touchpad issues on isorespined Ubntu 17.10 with refind 0.11.0 and Ezbook Pro V4s (Samsung EMMC) and Sandisk X400S 128G SSD.
November 14, 2017 at 9:12 pm #74873Hi! Confirmed, new kernel has no touchpad issues on isorespined Ubntu 17.10 with refind 0.11.0 and Ezbook Pro V4s (Samsung EMMC) and Sandisk X400S 128G SSD.
Yeah, I just found out from another EZB3P owner that the problem seems to be resolved with release candidate kernel v4.14-rc7 with his BIOS version 09/30/2017. What BIOS version do you have and what kernel are you using?
November 15, 2017 at 6:02 pm #74897Hello, kernel is 4.13.0.17, from the given link. 4.14-rc7 was not ok. The bios is from august i think, not the end of september version.
November 15, 2017 at 6:56 pm #74898Hello, kernel is 4.13.0.17, from the given link. 4.14-rc7 was not ok. The bios is from august i think, not the end of september version.
Which distro did you install, Antergos 17.09?
Run these commands in a terminal window and provide the link to your dmesg log output, thanks.
dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt
gedit ~/dmesg.txt
xdg-open http://www.pastebin.comNovember 15, 2017 at 7:30 pm #74899It is 17.10 Ubuntu from the official download site, isorespined, then kernel changed (yesterday did it) from the link above. Ubuntu installed few weeks ago, but had touchpad problem until kernel change.
https://pastebin.com/kDkmXEK6 (dmesg)
November 15, 2017 at 7:49 pm #74900It is 17.10 Ubuntu from the official download site, isorespined, then kernel changed (yesterday did it) from the link above. Ubuntu installed few weeks ago, but had touchpad problem until kernel change. https://pastebin.com/kDkmXEK6 (dmesg)
I don’t understand. Are you saying 4.13.0.17 works for you or 4.14-rc7 works? Or they both do not work – touchpad does not work?
For me kernel 4.13.11-1-ARCH on Antergos the touchpad is working most of the time, but it also failed one time. (one time only – so far)November 15, 2017 at 8:07 pm #749014.13.0.17 is working (from your link above)!!!! 4.14-rc7 was not ok (maybe patch was not included at all, god knows who compiled the kernel)!!! Since yesterday all boot was normal, touchpad is working, no freezing issue. Maybe sometimes this 100ms waiting time is not enough. This waiting time includes in the patch.
November 15, 2017 at 8:09 pm #74902”
<pre class=”content”>After some debuging this it seems that this touchpad simply never sends
an interrupt after a reset as expected by the i2c hid driver. This commit
adds a quirk for this device, making i2c_hid_command sleep 100ms after
a reset instead of waiting for an irq, fixing i2c-hid failing to bind to
this touchpad.”Maybe this 100ms is not enough sometimes, this was the reason, why your touchpad not worked once. (Just a tip)
November 15, 2017 at 9:43 pm #74907It looks like this quirk/fix for the touchpad is slated to be included in Kernel 4.15
November 15, 2017 at 9:48 pm #74908Hi! Confirmed, new kernel has no touchpad issues on isorespined Ubntu 17.10 with refind 0.11.0 and Ezbook Pro V4s (Samsung EMMC) and Sandisk X400S 128G SSD.
laf!… sorry John I didn’t see this comment above til now.
November 15, 2017 at 9:51 pm #74909Could be yes, and maybe rc7 was not patched (mine for sure not). But your link is briliant, i can live with “old” patched 4.13, until 4.15 final released.
November 15, 2017 at 9:52 pm #74910Is there some reason why you chose that Sandisk X400S SSD?
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