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CrossFades

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Registered: 2017-05-20

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[Solved] Dell track pad intermittent problem (Can recreate issue)

Hi,

I am very new to Arch Linux but I have decided to give it a go. I have ran into a problem when I shut down my Dell laptop and boot the device from fresh the track pad behaves differently to how it does if I just perform a reboot.

xinput on fresh boot:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ DELL0782:00 06CB:7E92 Touchpad              id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad                  id=14    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=10    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Webcam                           id=11    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=13    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                            id=15    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ DELL Wireless hotkeys                       id=16    [slave  keyboard (3)]

xinput after reboot:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer:13                         id=6    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13                id=7    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13                        id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]

I obviously have noticed there is quite a difference between both lists, I would greatly appreciate if anyone could shine some light on to why the laptop is behaving so differently depending on if its shutdown or rebooted?

Please let me know if anything else is needed.

Thanks,

Last edited by CrossFades (2017-05-20 20:44:24)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Dell track pad intermittent problem (Can recreate issue)

You logged into a wayland session (likely gnome on wayland, the default - choose "gnome on xorg" on login) and are now getting input emulation devices from the xwayland server (a wayland client providing an x11 server, much like xnest)

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CrossFades

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Registered: 2017-05-20

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved] Dell track pad intermittent problem (Can recreate issue)

You logged into a wayland session (likely gnome on wayland, the default - choose "gnome on xorg" on login) and are now getting input emulation devices from the xwayland server (a wayland client providing an x11 server, much like xnest)

Welcome to arch and linux.

Perfect, thanks that resolved my problem.