Multi-touch USB weird response

Jorge Fernandez Monteagudo jorgefm at cirsa.com
Fri Jul 30 03:43:44 EDT 2021


>> Event: time 1627381396.770902, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 5 (MSC_TIMESTAMP), value 35023100
>> Event: time 1627381396.770902, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
>> Event: time 1627381396.780891, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 5 (MSC_TIMESTAMP), value 35029400
>> Event: time 1627381396.780891, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
>> Event: time 1627381396.789895, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 5 (MSC_TIMESTAMP), value 35035700
>> Event: time 1627381396.789895, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
>> Event: time 1627381396.798896, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 5 (MSC_TIMESTAMP), value 35041900
>> Event: time 1627381396.798896, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
>> Event: time 1627381396.807889, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 5 (MSC_TIMESTAMP), value 35048200
>
>Looks like somebody's got a timer that pops every 0.01 seconds  or so. 
>(looks closer to 0.0098 or so actually)
>'git grep SYN_REPORT' tells me that these two files are a good place to start reading:
>
>Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.rst 
>Documentation/input/event-codes.rst 

Thanks for the info! Yes I would like to know who is sending these packages. I'm sniffing the USB  and I suspect the device in this edge situation is sending the same touch event every 8ms. Maybe a firmware bug...



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