Comment 26 for bug 1894017

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Hans de Goede (j-w-r-degoede) wrote :

chassis_type 31 is "Convertible", so we expect the intel-vbtn SW_TABLET_MODE reporting to work there.

There was one other HP model which had a bit of a weird issue, this was fixed by:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d823346876a970522ff9e4d2b323c9b734dcc4de

But that workaround got dropped when we switched to ignoring SW_TABLET_MODE on all devices where the chassis_type is not 31 or 32, since the model which needed that fix ("HP Pavilion 11 x360") uses a chassis_type of 10, so that workaround was no longer needed.

So now it seems that we should not have dropped the workaround as possibly more HP models need it. If you can build your own 5.9.10 kernel with the linked workaround applied, and test it that would be great.

There should be docs somewhere on how to build an ubuntu kernel with patches applied yourself. If you do not feel up to doing this yourself, then please say so, then one of the Ubuntu devs should be able to provide a test kernel with the patch added for you.