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GalliumOS 3.0 Braswell Touchpad Errors (elan_i2c syslog spamming) #513

Open robertmaynord opened 5 years ago

robertmaynord commented 5 years ago

I have successfully installed GalliumOS 3.0 on the Dell 3189 (Braswell), but the touchscreen does not work, and the trackpad is highly erratic. I also noticed that in the terminal, there is perpetual scrolling with the message: elan_i2c i2c-ELAN0000:00 Invalid Report ID Data. The scrolling continues to fill syslog and eats the available hard drive space.

Doing an internet search, I found that others had this problem in an Ubuntu forum. One of the suggestions offered was to use "modprobe -r elan_i2c" to eliminate the touchpad driver. This seems to work, however it leaves no touchpad at all. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1793960)

At the end of the forum, one person suggested that using kernel 5.2.0-050200rc3-generic would solve the problem. I have no idea how this might relate to the kernel used in GalliumOS 3.0, but it might lead to a solution of the problem for any users of the Braswell chip set.

Clearly this is beyond my knowledge, but would this kernel solve the problem many users are having with the touchpad in GalliumOS 3.0?

hexdump0815 commented 5 years ago

i have the same hardware and the same problem - installing an ubuntu 5.2.4 kernel did not change anything - still the same problem. to me it looks like the touchpad is working ok until i somehow touch the toucscreen, then it goes down the drain completely. the touchscreen is not working at all at any time, but it is listed next to the touchpad in an "xinput list".

bmfesta2009 commented 4 years ago

Try what I documented here and let me know https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/539

sorenrasmussenai commented 4 years ago

Try what I documented here and let me know #539

Didn't work for me (Dell 3189 "Kefka") GalliumOS 3.0 MrChromebox firmware 2019.12.01

hexdump0815 commented 4 years ago

same here - looks like there is no firmware repo for the dell 3189 kefka

so problem is still there ...

best wishes - hexdump

bmfesta2009 commented 4 years ago

You could alternatively try release R79 or newer. Maybe your driver configuration are built into the standard release. It matches based on the address of the Touchpad firmware.

notvelleda commented 4 years ago

also using a dell 3189, same issue release r79 of what?

hexdump0815 commented 3 years ago

some positive update: i have just installed the latest mrchromebox.tech full uefi firmware on my kefka (dell 3189) which is version 06-06-2020 and everything is working fine now: no more errors and both touchpad and touchscreen are working fine - verfied on both xubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 :)

best wishes and good luck - hexdump

robertmaynord commented 3 years ago

I can confirm this is true!! Thanks, hexdump0815 for the update. This makes the Dell 3189 machines totally usable now - in contrast to before.
Great News!