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I have an HP x360 envy 15-bpxx and I just switched to Arch. Before I had dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows. Anyway, even before setting up Arch the problem was already present. Whenever I'm getting into an OS (doesn't matter if Ubuntu, Windows or Arch is used) my laptop keyboard is disabling itself because tablet mode switches are randomly send by the sensors/hinges whatever.
This is my xinput output
╰─ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SEM USB Keyboard Consumer Control id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=24 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 id=19 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse System Control id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SEM USB Keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SEM USB Keyboard System Control id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP W id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Intel Virtual Button driver id=21 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Intel Virtual Button driver id=22 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=23 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wireless hotkeys id=25 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=26 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control id=27 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SEM USB Keyboard Consumer Control id=28 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 id=20 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP I id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
As you can see, I'm typing this by an external keyboard, because it isn't possible to use my laptop keyboard. The only way the keyboard is active is, if I use my laptop in tent mode or heavily tilted, which is the very opposite of the supposed behavior.
I further tried to specify the event/error and where its coming from with libinput. Here is some libinput debug-events record
╰─ sudo libinput debug-events
-event2 DEVICE_ADDED Power Button seat0 default group1 cap:k
-event22 DEVICE_ADDED Video Bus seat0 default group2 cap:k
-event23 DEVICE_ADDED Video Bus seat0 default group2 cap:k
-event1 DEVICE_ADDED Power Button seat0 default group3 cap:k
-event0 DEVICE_ADDED Lid Switch seat0 default group4 cap:S
-event4 DEVICE_ADDED MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse seat0 default group5 cap:k
-event5 DEVICE_ADDED MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse seat0 default group5 cap:p left scroll-nat scroll-button
-event6 DEVICE_ADDED MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control seat0 default group5 cap:kp scroll-nat
-event7 DEVICE_ADDED MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse System Control seat0 default group5 cap:k
-event9 DEVICE_ADDED SEM USB Keyboard seat0 default group6 cap:k
-event10 DEVICE_ADDED SEM USB Keyboard Consumer Control seat0 default group6 cap:kp scroll-nat
-event11 DEVICE_ADDED SEM USB Keyboard System Control seat0 default group6 cap:k
-event20 DEVICE_ADDED HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP W seat0 default group7 cap:k
-event21 DEVICE_ADDED HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP I seat0 default group7 cap:k
-event15 DEVICE_ADDED ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 seat0 default group8 cap:t size 332x188mm ntouches 10 calib
-event18 DEVICE_ADDED ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 seat0 default group8 cap:T size 341x193mm calib
-event13 DEVICE_ADDED Intel Virtual Button driver seat0 default group9 cap:kS
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +0.000s switch tablet-mode state 1
-event25 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH Mic seat0 default group10 cap:
-event26 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH Headphone seat0 default group10 cap:
-event27 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=3 seat0 default group10 cap:
-event28 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=7 seat0 default group10 cap:
-event29 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 seat0 default group10 cap:
-event30 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 seat0 default group10 cap:
-event31 DEVICE_ADDED HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=10 seat0 default group10 cap:
-event14 DEVICE_ADDED Intel Virtual Button driver seat0 default group11 cap:kS
-event3 DEVICE_ADDED AT Translated Set 2 keyboard seat0 default group12 cap:k
-event24 DEVICE_ADDED SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad seat0 default group13 cap:pg size 117x57mm tap(dl off) left scroll-nat scroll-2fg-edge click-buttonareas-clickfinger dwt-on
-event12 DEVICE_ADDED HP Wireless hotkeys seat0 default group14 cap:k
-event256 DEVICE_ADDED HP WMI hotkeys seat0 default group15 cap:k
-event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +1.927s switch tablet-mode state 0
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +2.727s switch tablet-mode state 1
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +4.027s switch tablet-mode state 0
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +5.424s switch tablet-mode state 1
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +6.541s switch tablet-mode state 0
event13 SWITCH_TOGGLE +7.791s switch tablet-mode state 1
So, clearly the problem is coming from "Intel Virtual Button Driver". I tried to disable them when I boot, but they still send the events, even when xinput tells that they are disabled. I found 1-2 similar threads, however all of them with no solution.
Edit: I managed to get rid of the "Intel Virtual Button driver" in xinput, so new output, without external keyboard looks like this:
─ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=19 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse System Control id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP W id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wide Vision FHD Camera: HP I id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wireless hotkeys id=20 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=21 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control id=22 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ELAN0732:00 04F3:2538 id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
However, they are still sending the events and get listed by libinput list-devices.
Maxi Köhler
Posted 2020-01-09T08:49:57.790
Reputation: 31