Ubuntu – Mouse & Touchpad buttons change function after suspend/hibernate

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I have a Lenovo Ideapad Y560 Laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. On startup both the touchpad and a USB mouse work fine.

After suspend, the mouse buttons work differently and erratically. This is true for both the touchpad buttons and the USB mouse buttons. Most notably, the left button doesn't select open windows, closes tabs in Google Chrome, but can still open applications in the Unity Desktop dock on the left side of the screen. The mouse pointer's movement is still fine with both the mouse & the touchpad.

My question: Any idea what's going on, or how to fix it?

Other information:

This laptop has an i8042 controller, which I've read has issues sometimes with Linux.

Here is the output of dmesg | grep i8042

[    1.028910] i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2P] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[    1.062759] i8042: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1
[    1.076908] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[    1.076919] serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[    1.076989] serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[    1.077044] serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[    1.077097] serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[    1.147924] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input4
[    2.824853] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input10
[    4.455565] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio3/input/input16

I've tried some things that haven't worked:

From this post, putting an executable shell script in the /etc/pm/sleep.d/ directory that unbinds the controller when suspending and rebinds it on awakening. This didn't seem to do anything.
From this post and this post, adding different options to the kernel's boot options to configure i8042. I tried adding i8042.reset i8042.nopnp i8042.direct i8042.dumbkbd i8042.nomux i8042.noloop to the "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" attribute in the file /etc/default/grub, as well as trying each of them separately. A few of these actually worked but caused another problem: they fixed the mouse buttons after suspend, but disabled the touchpad completely. This isn't ideal, as I don't always have a USB mouse.

Output of xinput list

⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse                id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                        id=15   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                id=16   [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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Lenovo EasyCamera                         id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Ideapad extra buttons                     id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=14   [slave  keyboard (3)]

Output of synclient | grep Touchpad

TouchpadOff             = 2

In case if it's helpful:

Using sudo synclient TouchpadOff=0 successfully changes the value of TouchpadOff from 2 to 0. However, after one click of the mouse or touchpad button, it changes back to 2 immediately.

Best Answer

While trying everything again, I seem to have found a combination of kernel instructions that works. I had tried all 6 or 7 together, and each one individually, but not this particular combination of three arguments.

I added just these three:

i8042.noloop i8042.nopnp i8042.reset

to the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""

in the file: /etc/default/grub

And then ran sudo update-grub to update grub2's configuration file.

I've suspended and re-awoke the computer several times, and it's worked every time so far. If it fails again in the future, I'll edit this question and answer.

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Well, this is not the direct answer, but a suggestion and examples. If you run xinput, you will get list of your devices. Then run xinput list-props $id where $id is your touchpad id in the list.

You will have a list of options like this:

$ xinput list-props 13
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
    Device Enabled (135):   1
    Coordinate Transformation Matrix (137): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
    Device Accel Profile (268): 1
    Device Accel Constant Deceleration (269):   2.500000
    Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (270):   1.000000
    Device Accel Velocity Scaling (271):    12.500000
    Synaptics Edges (292):  1765, 5371, 1637, 4453
    Synaptics Finger (293): 25, 30, 0
    Synaptics Tap Time (294):   180
    Synaptics Tap Move (295):   234
    Synaptics Tap Durations (296):  180, 180, 100
    Synaptics ClickPad (297):   1
    [...]

You can change all of these on-the-fly with xinput set-prop $id $propId $value where $id is the device id, $propId is property id in brackets and $value is what you want it to be. For example:

xinput set-prop 13 135 0 sets Device Enabled (135) to 0 and this will disable the touchpad.

You will need descriptions of properties and a way to make your changes permanent. Descriptions can be found in man synaptics, but wait, they are in another cryptic format! Let's see why.

To make changes permanent, you need to create conf file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, for example 30-tochpad.conf with contents like these:

    Section "InputClass"  # you can read more in `man xorg`
            Identifier "all touchpads"  # just a name for this config
            MatchIsTouchpad "on"  # enables this config for all detected touchpads
            Driver "synaptics"  # enables synaptics-specific options below

            # This will disable the device
            #Option "Ignore" "1"

            # There are options that are generic for input-devices or mouse-like devices, see `man evdev`:
            Option "ButtonMapping" "0 0 0 0 0 0 0"  # i disabled all buttons here, for example

            # Here go options from `man synaptics`
            Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
            Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
            Option "PalmDetect" "1"
            Option "ClickPad" "0"                
            # ...etc...
    EndSection

So, man synaptics describes options for xorg.conf and tells how they correspond to xinput list-props output.

PS. I tried to configure trackpoint on my ThinkPad X220 to have only two-fingers-scroll enabled, without clicks or mouse movement. I failed. Maybe you will manage to do what you want (there was an option to disable everything but clicks, maybe Synaptics Off).

Sources, more examples and unicorns:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics

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You can fix it this way:

sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub

In the open window edit line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

it should look this way

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.nopnp"

Save file and run

sudo update-grub

Run

echo "blacklist i2c_hid" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i2c-hid.conf
sudo depmod -a
sudo update-initramfs -u
echo "synaptics_i2c" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Reboot.

Please be careful, do not retype these commands, but copy them and paste into the terminal, or you can break the whole system, if mistype.

This solution disables Plug & Play for i8042 devices, then disables i2c-hid module and enables synaptics_i2c instead or it.

Plug & Play triggers a wrong module for this device.

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