hid-acer kernel module

Acer keyboards e.g. in Acer SW5-012 use synaptics touchpad USB ID (06cb:2968, 06CB:2991 & 06CB:74D9) and have the following issue:

• The report descriptor specifies an excessively large number of usages and logical max (2^16), which is more than HID_MAX_USAGES. This prevents proper parsing of the report descriptor.

Upstream fix

see http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg40080.html

Applied to for-4.3/upstream

Known broken keyboards

• 06CB:2968
  • Acer SW5-012
• 06CB:2991
  • Acer SW5-171
• 06CB:74d9
  • Acer SW5-171 Firmware revision 2.1

Build / Install

• Install linux-headers (for current version) and build utils.
  (see e.g. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/build-linux-kernel-module-against-installed-kernel-source-tree.html)

git clone https://github.com/SWW13/hid-acer.git
cd hid-acer
make
sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall