I am struggling to deal with strange behavior that started 'out of the blue', not after an update or anything.
First, the input to the touchpad is being incorrectly registered, and my touchpad scrolls all input as buttons or up/down scrolls:
[22:38] ~ $xinput test 16
motion a[2]=-451
button press 5
button release 5
motion a[2]=-452
button press 5
button release 5
motion a[1]=267 a[2]=-453
button press 5
button release 5
...
No taps are being made and all movement on the mouse pad only scrolls up or down, regardless of my actual movement. I can see this behavior even before logging in.
Secondly, with an external mouse, mouse movements are tracked correctly UNTIL I TOUCH THE TOUCHPAD, as soon as I try the touchpad, mouse clicks are no longer registered (for example, I cannot activate another application window with a mouse click, or access the dropdown menus with the mouse, or copy/paste text between applications).
All that I am able to do is navigate and switch applications using the keyboard (I know, not a bad thing in the end... but...).
My machine is a 2013 Macbook Pro. Here is some diagnostic information:
[22:29] ~ $uname -a
Linux macnix 4.6.3-040603-generic #201606241434 SMP Fri Jun 24 18:36:33 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[22:33] ~ $cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS"
and regarding xinputs:
[22:33] ~ $xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech M705 id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech K350 id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Wireless Bamboo PAD Pen stylus id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Wireless Bamboo PAD Finger touch id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Wireless Bamboo PAD Pen eraser id=17 [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)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ UVC Camera (046d:0821) id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
Additionally, if I dmesg | tail I see the following:
[ 2364.471287] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 1, Code: 31, Value: 1
[ 2364.471293] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
[ 2364.631265] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458774
[ 2364.631278] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 1, Code: 31, Value: 0
[ 2364.631283] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
[ 2366.739296] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 458792
[ 2366.739302] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 1, Code: 28, Value: 1
[ 2366.739306] evbug: Event. Dev: input21, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0
I do not know what these are related to. I have looked at many of the similar problems and their solutions here at askubuntu, including the modifications related to changing the /etc/default/grub file; trying to replace xinput with libinput but so far nothing has provided any solution. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
