Bug 94601

Summary: unexpected scroll event 0 in area state
Product: Wayland Reporter: Marco Neumann <marco>
Component: libinputAssignee: Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: anarsoul, andyrtr, mail, marco, peter.hutterer
Version: 1.2.x   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 94379    
Attachments: evemu record
Shorter dump

Description Marco Neumann 2016-03-17 19:29:31 UTC
Created attachment 122389 [details]
evemu record

Description:
Sometimes the touch pad "tab" function stops working. See "steps to reproduce" for more details. The problem was introduced recently (before the system worked totally fine for over 6 months)


Additional info:
* libinput 1.2.2
* xf86-input-libinput 0.17.0
* system is a Lenovo Carbon X1, 2015 edition (3rd gen)
* touchpad dimensions: 100mm w X 55mm h
* kernel is 4.4.5.201603142220-1-grsec (Arch Linux)


evemu recording:
see attachement, the bug happens somewhere at the end, than I used the "scroll-around" work-around and got a tab-driven click working (see "Steps to reproduce" section)


/sys/class/dmi/id/modalias:
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrN14ET31W(1.09):bd06/26/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20BTS2EJ00:pvrThinkPadX1Carbon3rd:rvnLENOVO:rn20BTS2EJ00:rvrNotDefined:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:


xinput list-props:
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
        Device Enabled (138):   1
        Coordinate Transformation Matrix (140): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
        libinput Tapping Enabled (277): 1
        libinput Tapping Enabled Default (278): 0
        libinput Tapping Drag Enabled (279):    1
        libinput Tapping Drag Enabled Default (280):    1
        libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled (281):       0
        libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled Default (282):       0
        libinput Accel Speed (283):     0.488789
        libinput Accel Speed Default (284):     0.000000
        libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (285):       1
        libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (286):       0
        libinput Send Events Modes Available (261):     1, 1
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (262):        0, 0
        libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (263):        0, 0
        libinput Left Handed Enabled (287):     0
        libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (288):     0
        libinput Scroll Methods Available (289):        1, 1, 0
        libinput Scroll Method Enabled (290):   1, 0, 0
        libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (291):   1, 0, 0
        libinput Click Methods Available (292): 1, 1
        libinput Click Method Enabled (293):    1, 0
        libinput Click Method Enabled Default (294):    1, 0
        libinput Disable While Typing Enabled (295):    1
        libinput Disable While Typing Enabled Default (296):    1
        Device Node (264):      "/dev/input/event10"
        Device Product ID (265):        2, 7
        libinput Drag Lock Buttons (297):       <no items>
        libinput Horizonal Scroll Enabled (266):        1





Kernel synaptics boot log:
psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5676], y [..4758]
psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried min coordinates: x [1266..], y [1096..]
psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 8.1, id: 0x1e2b1, caps: 0xf003a3/0x943300/0x12e800/0x10000, board id: 3072, fw id: 1795685
psmouse serio1: synaptics: serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0



Steps to reproduce:
Work with the touchpad (tab and scroll around), after a while, the tab feature isn't working anymore, but scrolling and mouse movement seems to behave as expected. The logs show the following information
/usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[XXXX]: (EE) libinput bug: unexpected scroll event 0 in area state

The tab feature can be restored using one of the following work-arounds:
* go to the GNOME system settings and disable and re-enable the tab settings
* try to "scroll" using 3 fingers, after some tries the libinput seems to behave normally again
Comment 1 Marco Neumann 2016-03-18 13:23:05 UTC
Maybe related: sometimes 1-finger tabs (= "left mouse button click") are interpreted as 3-finger tabs (= "middle mouse button click"); yes, that's an "error" of 2 additional fingers. In this case the "do a 3 finger tab / scroll"-workaround also works.

For both issues, I'm currently unable to eliminate that this is a hardware bug / defect.
Comment 2 Marco Neumann 2016-03-20 11:57:36 UTC
Created attachment 122439 [details]
Shorter dump

Here is a shorter evemu "log" (only 18secs) which also produces the described bug.
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2016-03-29 04:01:00 UTC
looks like this is caused by the touch ending immediately after the series of pressure-only updates. the trick we do with t->dirty = false in a608d9dc2 would cause this event to be swallowed and that causes the issues. I'll look into a better fix for this.
Comment 4 Peter Hutterer 2016-03-29 06:00:04 UTC
Can you check if attachment 122601 [details] [review] from bug 94379 fixes this issue? Not 100% yet myself (I ran out of time for today)
Comment 5 Peter Hutterer 2016-04-04 04:00:54 UTC
commit bc17185f426dae7a1ea4df6ba3459083c2d51f9b
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Tue Mar 29 13:34:00 2016 +1000

    touchpad: only post motion events if we have motion

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