Ack: [SRU][Q/R][PATCH 0/1] No on-screen keyboard on dell tablets

Aaron Ma aaron.ma at canonical.com
Fri Dec 26 07:34:07 UTC 2025


Upstream fix of quirks for the specific hardware with proper tests.

Acked-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma at canonical.com>

On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM AceLan Kao <acelan.kao at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2122398
>
> [Impact]
> No on-screen keyboard in gdm and can't enter password if there is no keyboard is connected.
>
> [Fix]
> Added those tablets to dmi_vgbs_allow_list() to read tablet mode while probing fixes the issue.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/11/27/285
>
> Included in v6.19-rc1
> b169e1733cadb platform/x86/intel/hid: Add Dell Pro Rugged 10/12 tablet to VGBS DMI quirks
>
> [Test]
> Boot up the affected tablets to gdm without touching any physical keys, the on-screen keyboard should pop up.
>
> [Where problems could occur]
> Current BIOS is reliablely to report the tablet mode during probing intel hid driver, but when it fails, it may report the wrong state and show the on-screen keyboard when keyboard is connected.
>
> Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan) (1):
>   platform/x86/intel/hid: Add Dell Pro Rugged 10/12 tablet to VGBS DMI
>     quirks
>
>  drivers/platform/x86/intel/hid.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
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