sww13/hid-acer

Acer HID Quirks

hid-acer kernel module

Acer keyboards e.g. in Acer SW5-012 use synaptics touchpad USB ID (06cb:2968, 06CB:2991 & 06CB:74D9) and have the following issue:

• The report descriptor specifies an excessively large number of usages and logical max (2^16), which is more than HID_MAX_USAGES. This prevents proper parsing of the report descriptor.

Upstream fix

see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg40080.html

Applied to for-4.3/upstream

Known broken keyboards

• 06CB:2968
  • Acer SW5-012
• 06CB:2991
  • Acer SW5-171
• 06CB:74d9
  • Acer SW5-171 Firmware revision 2.1

Build / Install

• Install linux-headers (for current version) and build utils.
  (see e.g. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/build-linux-kernel-module-against-installed-kernel-source-tree.html)

git clone https://github.com/SWW13/hid-acer.git
cd hid-acer
make
sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

hid-acer's Issues

Errors on Ubuntu with kernel 3.19.0-26

I have been using this module on Ubuntu 15.04 for quite some time without issues. However recently a new kernel 3.19.0-26 came in and I see a problem when using it. At boot time systemd hangs for 3 minutes while waiting for some service to come up. Logs are filled with repeating strings New USB device found, idVendor=0489, idProduct=e076 at that time. Could you have a look, please?

Fedora Error make

hi,

i try to install your patch with fedora and get the following error when entering "make" as root:

[root@localhost hid-acer]# make
make -C /lib/modules/4.2.0-300.fc23.x86_64/build M=/home/<username>/Downloads/hid-acer-master/hid-acer modules
make[1]: *** /lid/modules/4.2.0-300.fc23.x86_64/build: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden. Schluss.
Makefile:27: recipe for target 'default' failed
make: *** [default] Error 2

du you have any idea what is wrong? Is there any chance to make it work with fedora?

keyboard works but no touchpad function

Hi,
thanks for the driver, it works for an keyboard at a ACER Switch 10.
But after installing the touchpad didn't work.

How to compile this in Linux 4.0?

I'm need to compile this in Ubuntu 15.04 (Linux 4.0), but I'm got this

driver don't work with the 4.4 kernel for me

I can't compile it with Linux 4.4 on Ubtuntu 15.10, i get :

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master$ make

make -C /lib/modules/4.4.0/build M=/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0'
  CC [M]  /media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master/hid-acer.o
./scripts/recordmcount: 1: ./scripts/recordmcount: Syntax error: end of file unexpected
scripts/Makefile.build:264: recipe for target '/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master/hid-acer.o' failed
make[2]: *** [/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master/hid-acer.o] Error 2
Makefile:1384: recipe for target '_module_/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master' failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/media/ubuntu/Data/hid/hid-acer-master] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.0'
Makefile:27: recipe for target 'default' failed
make: *** [default] Error 2

Can you please help me ?

Getting it into kernel

Hello. It looks like there's no progress for the kernel patch and it's not in the latest kernel source. Would pinging developers help to put it through?