Thanks a lot Hans for your quick reply :) I will indeed proceed to filing a bug as you suggested and hope for the best. Have a nice day! Andrea IPPOLITO Il giorno gio 23 set 2021 alle ore 11:00 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > > Hi Andrea, > > On 9/23/21 10:47 AM, Andrea Ippolito wrote: > > Hello, > > > > has anyone had a chance to have a look at this report, and can help > > making some progress on the investigation? > > > > Please let me know if there are more suitable channels for this, since > > most of the things I see in these mailing lists are patches and code > > reviews, not really reports and discussions around ongoing issues. > > Right, bugs are usually discussed in bugzila, you could consider > filing a bug here: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Drivers > > But I must be honest here, I don't see much progress being made > on this until someone with a significant amount of kernel / hw-enablement > experience gets it hands on one of these models. Either because some > company wants to run Linux on an affected model and ends up paying > someone to look at this, or because someone with the necessary > skills happens to buy one and then gets annoyed enough by this to sink > enough time into the issue to figure things out. > > This hw is still relatively new, so with some luck someone accidentally > fixes this while fixing another issue, which happens to have the > same root cause. > > Short of one of these 2 happening I don't see this getting resolved > anytime soon. By all means, do file a bug for this, I just want to > set expectations about the (un)likelyness of this getting fixed > (or the bug getting much attention in general) beforehand. > > Regards, > > Hans > > > > > > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea IPPOLITO > > > > Il giorno ven 27 ago 2021 alle ore 08:57 Andrea Ippolito > > <andrea.ippo@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto: > >> > >> (resending as plain text) > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I hope I find you well. > >> > >> I am writing this to report a touchpad issue faced by me and several > >> other DELL users across several different distros (HW defect has been > >> ruled out by people unable to reproduce on Windows). > >> > >> First thing that came to mind was to report this to the libinput > >> project, which I did here: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/618 > >> > >> A similar report by another user followed shortly after: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/636 (will be > >> closed as dupe eventually, so please keep #618 as reference) > >> > >> Issue has been also reported by yet another user on reddit: > >> > >> https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/ofbzg3/dell_xps_15_9510_experience/h5ddy07/ > >> and https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/ofbzg3/dell_xps_15_9510_experience/h5zjwc8/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 > >> > >> And finally, I have reported it on the DELL user forums (no help > >> whatsoever from DELL): > >> > >> https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Tiger-Lake-DELL-Inspiron-Touchpad-Cursor-temporarily-drops/m-p/8021753#M126292 > >> > >> The investigation on the libinput side appears to be complete, as > >> maintainers didn't spot anything weird there (also, the issue is also > >> reproducible with the synaptics lib, suggesting that this might be > >> lower level). > >> > >> Robert Martin suggested to raise this to you now, as per comment: > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/618#note_1042277 > >> > >> I'm kind of new to Linux mailing lists and bug reporting, so please > >> forgive me if I'm violating some rules or etiquette, I'd be glad to > >> rectify if that's the case. > >> > >> I also don't know what is the best way to keep the conversation going, > >> e.g. if there's an issue tracker or instead mailing lists are the > >> preferred choice. > >> > >> You should find some interesting data in the above mentioned reports > >> already, if not, please don't hesitate to let me know or chime in on > >> libinput issue #618 directly. > >> > >> Thanks a lot in advance. > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> Andrea IPPOLITO > > >
