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rishychacko

Member

Registered: 2015-01-03

Posts: 7

Touchscreen loses touch sensitivity after hibernation

Hello everyone,
I am a new arch user. After installing and configuring ARCH to my liking, I found that my Touchscreen on ThinkPad Yoga (ELAN USB TOUCH) worked out of the box on ARCH (I'm using GNOME GUI w. XORG) but once I hibernate my machine, upon waking it the touchscreen does not function. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you! And, the sensitivity returns once I restart my machine. GIven this is not an issue on the Windows partition, I know this is isolated to software but don't have the expertise to move forward.

Last edited by rishychacko (2015-01-04 02:53:50)

yndoendo

Member

Registered: 2013-08-19

Posts: 6

Re: Touchscreen loses touch sensitivity after hibernation

Just fix this issue today.  I was having the same issue with XPS 13 9343 .  Found that hibernation / X was disabling the touchscreen and not enabling it after resume. Added the following script:

/etc/pm/sleep.d/99touchscreen

#!/bin/sh
#
# 99touchscreen: suspend/wakeup Touchscreen input device

case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend)
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop "ELAN Touchscreen" "Device Enabled" 0
;;
thaw|resume)
/usr/bin/xinput set-prop "ELAN Touchscreen" "Device Enabled" 1
;;
*) exit $NA
;;
esac

Had to manually disable the touchscreen or closing the lid would not start hibernation. Check out Arch Touchscreen Wiki to find the name of your touchscreen using xinput.