Hello all, I've been here for a while although I very rarely come on these forums. I've found an issue that other people have told me they have had similar issues with so I thought I'd get this written down to see what others here have to say about it.
I am currently using Linux Mint Cinnamon on a ThinkPad T440p. Everything works as it should, and this is the reason for me using Mint. There is nothing to fix or fight with once it is installed. I am however having an issue with locking the screen and the touchpad not working quite right once Im back to the desktop. After an unlock, the touchpad doesnt respond right, clicking on things doesnt work and scrolling is just a no go. This has happened twice now and both times the only fix has been to either reset the touchpad through the terminal or reboot the system entirely.
My issue is not a Mint only issue, a friend has an Acer laptop and he has similar issues with locking the screen or putting it to sleep and once it is unlocked or woken up, things become weird. He described it as "unlocking the computer makes it feel like the touchpad has gone out of alignment with the resolution, and sleep mode makes it feel like the pad has been left in sleep mode when everything else wakes up." Hes had these problems on Mint, Debian, and I believe NixOS although I could be wrong on that one. Hes new to Linux and hes been on every distro possible over the past few weeks (its actually tiring how much he changes, if he carries on I'm taking his laptop hostage until he comes to a decision). I mentioned this last night on the Mint forums and somebody else commented saying they had found similar issues after a suspend and his only work around was to reset the touchpad through terminal and there was nothing in the logs to suggets any sort of problem.
For me, I'm in the same boat as the irl friend. Ive got this current issue on Mint, Ive had lock screen problems on Arch where the screen would turn off after a while but then turn itself back on repeatedly without pressing anything, and I stopped using Debian because the sleep mode just didnt work. It would allow me to put it to sleep but then it would just turn the screen off, keeping itself awake. I cant say these issues have been present only on this laptop, because I've not had this too long and these past problems have been on multiple laptops including two other thinkPads, a Chromebook with ChromeOS swapped for Debian and now this T440p.
This is why I've posted on here, it seems to me that whatever the problem is, is not simply a distro problem yet I dont know enough about how Linux works and nothing about the kernel to be able to look into this myself. It's across multiple distros on multiple laptops, most of these with different hardware.
It may be a completely pointless post to make and the whole thing might be something caused by user error, but problems dont get sorted unless those that know what theyre doing are aware of the problem in the first place.
I am currently using Linux Mint Cinnamon on a ThinkPad T440p. Everything works as it should, and this is the reason for me using Mint. There is nothing to fix or fight with once it is installed. I am however having an issue with locking the screen and the touchpad not working quite right once Im back to the desktop. After an unlock, the touchpad doesnt respond right, clicking on things doesnt work and scrolling is just a no go. This has happened twice now and both times the only fix has been to either reset the touchpad through the terminal or reboot the system entirely.
My issue is not a Mint only issue, a friend has an Acer laptop and he has similar issues with locking the screen or putting it to sleep and once it is unlocked or woken up, things become weird. He described it as "unlocking the computer makes it feel like the touchpad has gone out of alignment with the resolution, and sleep mode makes it feel like the pad has been left in sleep mode when everything else wakes up." Hes had these problems on Mint, Debian, and I believe NixOS although I could be wrong on that one. Hes new to Linux and hes been on every distro possible over the past few weeks (its actually tiring how much he changes, if he carries on I'm taking his laptop hostage until he comes to a decision). I mentioned this last night on the Mint forums and somebody else commented saying they had found similar issues after a suspend and his only work around was to reset the touchpad through terminal and there was nothing in the logs to suggets any sort of problem.
For me, I'm in the same boat as the irl friend. Ive got this current issue on Mint, Ive had lock screen problems on Arch where the screen would turn off after a while but then turn itself back on repeatedly without pressing anything, and I stopped using Debian because the sleep mode just didnt work. It would allow me to put it to sleep but then it would just turn the screen off, keeping itself awake. I cant say these issues have been present only on this laptop, because I've not had this too long and these past problems have been on multiple laptops including two other thinkPads, a Chromebook with ChromeOS swapped for Debian and now this T440p.
This is why I've posted on here, it seems to me that whatever the problem is, is not simply a distro problem yet I dont know enough about how Linux works and nothing about the kernel to be able to look into this myself. It's across multiple distros on multiple laptops, most of these with different hardware.
It may be a completely pointless post to make and the whole thing might be something caused by user error, but problems dont get sorted unless those that know what theyre doing are aware of the problem in the first place.
