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  1. Bug #1887190
  2. Comment #350

Comment 350 for bug 1887190

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Coiby Xu (coiby) wrote : Re: [Bug 1887190] Re: MSFT Touchpad not working on Lenovo Legion-5 15ARH05

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 07:03:55PM -0000, Adam Felson wrote:
>Before I grab'n'build 5.11, I'd like to know if my issue is similar.
>I have a lenovo ideapad 730s.
>The touchpad works fine for pointing, single, double and triple clicks.
>I have tried both the synaptics and libinput drivers. It's been a while since I was comparing them; IIRC, I'm currently running the synaptics driver as libinput didn't have scrolling/coasting working.
>
>My problem is that palm detection and pressure sensitivity do not work.
>This makes the laptop pretty much unusable as it is almost impossible to
>do any text entry without the insertion point jumping to wherever the
>pointer was left.
>
>Might the 5.11 kernel fix it?

Your issue sounds different to this one. But you needn't to build the
kernel to see if the solution here works for you. You can try #189. If
it works for you, then 5.11 could also fix your issue. You may also want
to give https://github.com/coiby/standalone_i2c_hid a try.