Re: PROBLEM: Missing events on thinkpad trackpoint buttons

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On 2015-08-19, Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Benjamin Tissoires
> <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Here is the evtest result from placing two fingers on the touchpad,
>>> then pressing the left trackpoint button 10 times, counting 1 second
>>> between each press.  As you can see, only 3 presses and 3 release
>>> events total were sent by the kernel, sometimes with many physical
>>> button presses between the press and its corresponding release:
>>
>> OK, so this is definitively weird. My first idea would be a firmware
>> problem. I have asked Chandler to reproduce it on his t450 and see if
>> we observe it on our laptops too.
>
> Update on this one : Chandler reproduced it on the t450, so it's
> likely that all of these sensors are affected. It is still unclear if
> it is a firmware bug or a driver problem, but the chances are huge
> that this is a firmware bug. Anyway, that's one more reason to push
> towards RMI4 over SMBus for these sensors: the bug is not present with
> this protocol :)

Well, that sounds fortunate :)

Do you still want the ps2emu-record log?  I didn't have time to run it
yesterday but should be able to do it this evening.

Regards,
  Nick
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