Hello!
About a year ago I got a family member a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 (Model: 81WE00NKUS) for Christmas. I helped install Pop! OS on it which has been working, with the exception of the touch screen, for a year. We had to jump through some hoops to get the touch pad working but could never figure out the touch screen, which worked in Windows no problem.
Long story short, an update from Pop OS 20.04 to 21.10 failed very badly (dropped my family member back to a BusyBox prompt) and I had to walk her through creating a bootable Manjaro flash drive, booting Manjaro, mounting the internal HDD, saving data to external USB storage, manual partitioning (in order to create separate /home partition), installing Manjaro, and restoring data, all over the phone.
We did all that work and did the aforementioned work around to get the touch pad working, and at this point the laptop is working perfectly with the exception of the touch screen. Iāve tried to find how to get the touch screen working but have run into the limits of my own understanding for how to perform this fix.
The touch screen is, as best as I can tell, connected over the USB bus, as it shows up with the command lsusb
as:
Raydium Corporation Raydium Touch System
When I looked for other people who had issues with the Raydium Touch System, I found this answer on the Arch forum of someone who fixed it with the solution as follows:
I added āusbcore.quirks=2386:433b:bkā to my kernel parameters and the touchscreen started working. The ā2386:433bā is the ID for the touchscreen from lsusb so change that part if itās not the same for you.
Iām not sure how exactly you add kernel parameters so I canāt advise my family member with what to try.
Can anyone please advise for how to add something to kernel parameters? It seems like this should be fairly easyā¦maybe?
Or if Iām going down the wrong path, please advise what else needs to happen to get the touch screen working. Lots of things that I read basically said ājust wait, it will be included in the kernel eventuallyā but itās been a year and I think that the Raydium touch system is already in the kernel, it is just not working for some reason.
This is probably not Gnome specific but the Manjaro installation is the Gnome version.