On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 15:28:15 BST inasprecali wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2020 14:58:32 +0100 > > Victor Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > My laptop's trackpad is an ETPS/2 Elantech on a ThinkPad Yoga > > 260 (ca. 2016). Every so often it freezes and refuses to respond > > to any and all input. The freeze usually lasts for a second or > > so, but can sometimes be longer in the range of 10-15 seconds or > > even freeze indefinitely until the "psmouse" kernel module is > > reloaded. It also experiences "jumping" behaviour, most commonly > > encountered when press-holding one of the companion buttons > > along with a dragging gesture, but that's not an exclusive > > scenario. > > I experience very similar symptoms on my ThinkPad 13. It doesn't > happen often, but it does sometimes happen. > > > A quick Google search can reveal complaints about this issues > > across distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian) that can be traced > > back to at least 2012 in various laptop models. There also > > appears to be a related upstream kernel bug [1] that has been > > left in limbo. > > I noticed this as well, it's almost certainly a bug in Linux > itself which, for some reason, has never been fixed after all > these years. I don't think Gentoo can do much about it. > > Unfortunately I'm not aware of any real solution, but as a > workaround, you can unmount and re-mount the psmouse module when > the problem occurs (if psmouse is not built compiled as a module, > I suggest you do it). At least this is what works for me, YMMV: > > # modprobe -r psmouse > # modprobe psmouse
I'm on an old Lenovo which must have different hardware/firmware. It does not suffer from such trackpad problems. Just an idea: have you migrated your system to libinput driver and removed all old synaptics syntax in /etc/X11/ xorg.conf.d/ to avoid potential clashes?
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