System Details
- Device: Pixelbook 2017 Eve
- OS: Fedora 44
- Firmware Type: UEFI Full ROM
- Firmware Version: 1.5.0
- Internal storage type: NVMe
Summary of the Issue
Touchscreen not responsive. Many users report that the touchscreen works out of the box with a supported Linux distro. I’ve tried Mint 22.3 (unsupported by MrChromebox), Ubuntu 26.04, and Fedora 44. WCOM50C1 is listed as an input device using libinput list-devices and there are no error messages in dmesg. I can provide a full dump of dmesg if necessary. I wasn’t able to figure out how to boot either Ubuntu or Fedora into Xorg instead of Wayland to see if that fixes it. (Edit: looks like xorg is not shipped with current GNOME 50 distros.)
FYI: this is my first time using Linux, so I do need some hand-holding, but I’ve done a ton of research into this issue and I haven’t found a solution.
EDIT: Looks like there are a lot of errors in dmesg that I didn’t see. I can initiate an error by touching the screen: “iio iio:device5: Unknown activity: 2”
Input 5 is
Device: WCOM50C1:00 2D1F:5143
Kernel: /dev/input/event5
Id: i2c:2d1f:5143
Steps to Reproduce
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Flash firmware UEFI (touchpad updated - no issues with touchpad input)
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Install Linux distro
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???
Expected Behavior
Should just work out of the box according to many other users…shrug