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leatherpants

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Registered: 2025-07-26

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USB touchpad physical clicking not working properly

Hello everyone, newbie here!

I've just bought a JOMAA USB touchpad, which has two physical buttons at bottom left and right corner, same as most laptop touchpads.

The weird thing is that physical clicking works out of box on Debian 13 (kernel version 6.12) and Ubuntu 25.10 (6.17), but not on Arch (6.17) nor Fedora 43 (6.17).

As a newbie I think these distros should share the same drivers in the same kernel version and have a similar compatibility but they don't. I really want to fix this problem by, for example, copying something from Debian to Arch, but don't have any ideas where to start the job.

Hoping for some help, thank you!

More info: All on Wayland, on Arch tested both on Hyprland and Gnome.
On Arch and Fedora, `libinput debug-events` does not recognize button clicking, `libinput list-devices` recognize the touchpad simply as "HID 05ac:0265"
On Debian and Ubuntu, clicking is recorded in debug-events and touchpad is labeled as "HID 05ac:0265 Touchpad" in list-devices.

Last edited by leatherpants (2025-10-31 21:30:48)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: USB touchpad physical clicking not working properly

Sounds kernel bug, can you reproduce with linux-lts? Which exact minor versions of 6.17? Which libinput versions?

FWIW something I also just stumbled upon https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2270712 maybe give that a shot? If you unsure about compiling your own kernel I have a tree lying around I might get to, but I won't be able to attempt that before tomorrow evening (assuming I don't forget)

Last edited by V1del (2025-11-04 16:13:01)

leatherpants

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Registered: 2025-07-26

Posts: 2

Re: USB touchpad physical clicking not working properly

Sounds kernel bug, can you reproduce with linux-lts? Which exact minor versions of 6.17? Which libinput versions?

FWIW something I also just stumbled upon https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2270712 maybe give that a shot? If you unsure about compiling your own kernel I have a tree lying around I might get to, but I won't be able to attempt that before tomorrow evening (assuming I don't forget)

Thank you for reply! I am on kernel version 6.17.6-arch1-1, libinput version 1.29.2.

I have tried 6.12.56-1-lts kernel, it didn't help.

Last edited by leatherpants (2025-11-04 19:17:48)