Re: Regression: Dell XPS 13 9360 keyboard no longer works

From: Jeremy Cline <jeremy@jcline.org>
To: Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>
Cc: "Mario Limonciello" <mario.limonciello@dell.com>,
	"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
	"Andy Shevchenko" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"Darren Hart" <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression: Dell XPS 13 9360 keyboard no longer works
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:08:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01000161bdd7f206-c8d87cce-1b8c-4888-8d6a-5247198b3ead-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1628582.nV6hDClBbL@phobos>

On 02/22/2018 05:21 AM, Marco Martin wrote:
> On giovedì 22 febbraio 2018 06:14:07 CET Jeremy Cline wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Commit 30323fb6d552c41997baca5292bf7001366cab57 (Support tablet mode
>> switch) causes the keyboard on my XPS 13 to stop working. This
>> particular model has a touch screen (which I've disabled in the BIOS),
>> but isn't a 2-in-1 with a tablet mode. My guess is it's being put in
>> tablet mode and that's disabling the keyboard? In any case, I'm happy
>> to test fixes and provide any necessary information.
> 
> 30323fb6d552c41997baca5292bf7001366cab57 initializes the switch to the correct 
> state, in theory, it seems VGBS() is returning the wrong thing? could it 
> report it has the switch and in a closed state even if it doesn't have it?
>  also seems device specific, on my inspiron6352 if i go in teblet mode the 
> keyboard keeps working until i fold it completely (which i don't know/don't 
> think is something detectable at all from the software side)
> 
> can you test with the command evtest (if an external keyboard works, or via 
> ssh)?, then looking at the state of the intel virtual button driver it should 
> show you the current state of the switch
> 

Hi,

Here's the evtest output for the virtual button driver:

Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x19 vendor 0x0 product 0x0 version 0x0
Input device name: "Intel Virtual Button driver"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 114 (KEY_VOLUMEDOWN)
    Event code 115 (KEY_VOLUMEUP)
    Event code 116 (KEY_POWER)
    Event code 125 (KEY_LEFTMETA)
    Event code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN)
    Event code 561 (?)
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
  Event type 5 (EV_SW)
    Event code 1 (SW_TABLET_MODE) state 1
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)

Regards,
Jeremy