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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04. When I run dmesg in the Terminal, there are some red results and maybe bad ones. Also, there are a lot of red i2c_hid_get_input errors. They happen every minute, even after the boot has been finished. The format is something like this (which {time} is the time of occurrence of the error):

 [      {time}] i2c_hid i2c-ELAN0501:00: i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (14/65535)
  1. What are those error and why are they happening?
  2. Should I ignore them?
  3. How to fix them (if they are important)?

Thanks!

MAChitgarha
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  • I believe hid refers to a human interface device (touchpad perhaps?) – Elder Geek Nov 14 '18 at 00:41
  • this seems to be a common issue with touchpads on Asus laptops. – Michael Altfield Dec 30 '20 at 22:47
  • @MichaelAltfield This was happened with my Acer laptop. It would be rather touchpad-specific. However, I'm not on Ubuntu anymore. I use Fedora (with the same hardware), I just checked my `dmesg` output, and I don't see this kind of errors, not a single time. So maybe the error is fixed with recent versions of Ubuntu also? – MAChitgarha Dec 31 '20 at 08:47

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This problem was reported as a bug here. If you are affected by this bug you should subscribe to it. FWIW I don't get this on my 18.04 system with kernel 4.15.0-39 generic.

Elder Geek
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