I was rather shouty above, for which I apologise, but it is hard to remain calm when things such as the following happen.
I tried up update the trackpad firmware, hoping this would help with the S3 sleep / touchpad problem. I had use a Window pre-boot environment to do to that. The new trackpad firmware would not install previously because of a bug. A BIOS update was meant to allow it to install. It will should not install - but then I remembered I have the trackpoint disabled in BIOS. (The firmware updater did not mention this.) I enabled the trackpoint in the BIOS. The firmware updater seemed to flash alright - but then re-flashed, twice, taking ages each time, giving no message, and making me think my machine was in an infinite loop and that aborting - if I could; the trackpad and touchpoint were not working - would cause serious problems. Eventually the flasher gave an error message and aborted. Possibly the problem was that the flasher needs a Synaptics driver installed and a reboot; in the pre-boot environment I could install that driver but after the reboot it seemed that the driver was no longer install. What a total nightmare. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791427 Title: Touchpad and/or trackpoint stop working after S3 suspend on Lenovo X1 Carbon 6th Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 Terminology in case we use different terms: touchpad - just the rectangular touch-sensitive surface below the keyboard (xinput lists it as Synaptics TM3288-011) trackpoint - the red thingy built into the keyboard + 3 physical buttons below the keyboard (trackpoint and buttons are integrated together; listed in xinput as TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint) On September 7th, 2018, Lenovo has issued a BIOS update (v1.30), which enables proper S3 deep sleep state - users no longer have to patch DSDT tables to get it. It can be enabled in the BIOS settings. In X1 carbon 6th generation models that have NFC, when laptop wakes from suspend by opening the lid, in most cases both touchpad and trackpoint stop working completely. They are also no longer listed when running xinput command. Sometimes just one of them stops working, usually the trackpoint. In some rare cases it is possible to bring them back by using these commands: echo -n none > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/drvctl echo -n reconnect > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/drvctl rmmod psmouse modprobe psmouse These worked properly when waking up from S2Idle sleep state (had these in a script that runs after waking the machine from suspend), but with S3 deep sleep these rarely work and the only way to bring back touchpad and/or trackpoint is turning off the machine and turning it on (restart does not help). I could not find any pattern that would show when the input devices stop working or start working again using the commands mentioned above. It's completely random from my perspective. This is happening on the standard issue 4.15.0-33-generic kernel that shipped with my Ubuntu 18.04 (with updates), as well as with newer mainline kernels, such as the newest point versions of 4.17, 4.18 and 4.19 RC2. This happens regardless of whether "blacklist i2c_i801" is commented out in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf or not. It happens regardless of whether "psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1" is passed as grub parameter. Presence of TLP does not make it better, nor worse. It appears that non-NFC models are not affected. I know at least one Arch Linux user who has the exact same model, but without this issue. I'm using synaptics driver (no libinput installed), he uses libinput and doesn't have synaptics, if that information is of any use. Libinput does not seem to help. This forum thread also has more details from users who updated their BIOS to get S3 suspend: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux- Discussion/X1-Carbon-Gen-6-cannot-enter-deep-sleep-S3-state-aka- Suspend-to/td-p/3998182/page/27 Another related thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236367 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: linux-image-4.15.0-33-generic 4.15.0-33.36 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-33.36-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-33-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.3 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: maciej 2651 F...m pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: maciej 2651 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: i3 Date: Sat Sep 8 13:45:43 2018 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=3116dcb0-d91e-4b2a-8166-43b7a9a9d36e InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-21 (49 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:56b2 IMC Networks Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:0060 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Wireless optical mouse Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub MachineType: LENOVO 20KH006KPB ProcFB: 0 EFI VGA 1 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.15.0-33-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root ro quiet splash psmouse.synaptics_intertouch=1 vt.handoff=1 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.15.0-33-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.15.0-33-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.173.1 SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 08/31/2018 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: N23ET55W (1.30 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 20KH006KPB dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: SDK0J40697 WIN dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: None dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN23ET55W(1.30):bd08/31/2018:svnLENOVO:pn20KH006KPB:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon6th:rvnLENOVO:rn20KH006KPB:rvrSDK0J40697WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone: dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th dmi.product.name: 20KH006KPB dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1791427/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp