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Hi,
today I installed arch on my laptop with i3 as window manager. After a few hours everything worked fine except the touchpad. I can't get it to work even after a few hours of troubleshooting.
According to the documentation it should work out of the box with libinput and the old synaptics shoudl be avoided. Nevertheless I tried it and they aren't working either.
It seems that the touchpad isn't recognized because with 'xinput list' or 'libinput list-devices' I don't get anything with touchpad in the name (only ThinkPad extra buttons, but I assume these are the function keys).
On .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log I have two errors
* open /dev/fb0: Permission denied
* Failed to load module "intel"
I would be really glad if someone has an idea for me? By now I am clueless what I should try next.
Last edited by ra (2018-12-02 19:28:46)
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Ok, found finally a solution and hopefully this will also help others.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59714
I am not sure what this does, but it works
sudo sh -c 'echo -n "elantech" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serio1/protocol'
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