Synaptics Driver doesn't load for Lenovo ThinkPad Travel Keyboard

[Noel J. Bergman]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Reposting Bug 201253, since was requested to open a new bug rather than re-open the old one that was never touched.

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Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

The Lenovo "ThinkPad Travel Keyboard - US English" (Part no. 31P9490) does not work with the current synaptics X11 driver/evdev. When running off of the boot cd, both the trackpoint and touchpad work, but only through the "mouse" driver, so none of the special touchpad functionality like scrolling works.

See also: http://www.jan-steinhoff.de/linux/synaptics-usb.html (it's 06CB:0009, Synaptics Composite or UltraNav)

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This is still present in Maverick, and (of course) present in Lucid, Karmic, et al.

See also Bug 483121.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.2-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-3.4-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 17 09:53:25 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.35-3-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100601)
MachineType: LENOVO 64577WU
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=d16cafe8-3e52-4687-ba71-6bdd9fa5d647 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
dmi.bios.date: 05/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETC6WW (2.26 )
dmi.board.name: 64577WU
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETC6WW(2.26):bd05/11/2009:svnLENOVO:pn64577WU:pvrThinkPadT61p:rvnLENOVO:rn64577WU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 64577WU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61p
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: maverick
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.35-3-generic

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

First of all thanks for reporting the bug report and help us to make ubuntu better ... cheers

Please provide us with the following output
cat /proc/bus/input/devices > devices

[Anmar Oueja (anmar)]

Gursiman:

I have the same keyboard so I have attached the devicex.txt file you wanted.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices as requested. The travel keyboard is connected via a dock station.

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

To make it even easier, here is the difference between having the keyboard attached or not:

$ diff -u devices2.txt devices.txt
--- devices2.txt 2010-08-29 12:44:57.000000000 -0400
+++ devices.txt 2010-08-29 12:42:30.000000000 -0400
@@ -94,6 +94,49 @@
 B: EV=40001
 B: SND=6

+I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b3 Product=3019 Version=0100
+N: Name="Lite-On Tech IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav"
+P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1.3/input0
+S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1.3/1-4.1.3:1.0/input/input10
+U: Uniq=
+H: Handlers=kbd event10
+B: EV=120013
+B: KEY=1000000000007 ff9f207ac14057ff febeffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
+B: MSC=10
+B: LED=7
+
+I: Bus=0003 Vendor=04b3 Product=3019 Version=0100
+N: Name="Lite-On Tech IBM USB Travel Keyboard with UltraNav"
+P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1.3/input1
+S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1.3/1-4.1.3:1.1/input/input11
+U: Uniq=
+H: Handlers=kbd event11
+B: EV=13
+B: KEY=7fff800000000000 0 0 1f 0 28c000d000 1e000000000000 0
+B: MSC=10
+
+I: Bus=0003 Vendor=06cb Product=0009 Version=0100
+N: Name="Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
+P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1.4/input0
+S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1.4/1-4.1.4:1.0/input/input12
+U: Uniq=
+H: Handlers=mouse2 event12
+B: EV=17
+B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
+B: REL=3
+B: MSC=10
+
+I: Bus=0003 Vendor=06cb Product=0009 Version=0100
+N: Name="Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
+P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1a.7-4.1.4/input1
+S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.7/usb1/1-4/1-4.1/1-4.1.4/1-4.1.4:1.1/input/input13
+U: Uniq=
+H: Handlers=mouse3 event13
+B: EV=17
+B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
+B: REL=3
+B: MSC=10
+
 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000a Version=0000
 N: Name="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
 P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Why is this marked incomplete? What other information is requested?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

The requested information was provided, the report was marked incomplete with no explanation of why. The bug still exists, and should be addressed.

[D Zhang (cheungtifan)]

This keyboard was obtained from IBM. This is not the lenovo keyboard designed for personal use. It is for servers only and do not support other advanced functions other than basic mouse/keyboard.
I suppose it should be closed, for it is a hardware limitation.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Noel J. Bergman, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-input-synaptics REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]