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ashborn

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Registered: 2022-06-19

Posts: 2

Elan touchpad not recognised, Failed to fetch the HID Descriptor

Hey, I use Arch-5.18.3 on a Hp-pavillion gaming 15 with i3wm. I've experienced this a long time but for all the distributions i've used until now, the touchpad dosen't seem get detected much less work, however it work's on live CD.

this is the xinput i get

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ USB Optical Mouse                       	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard Mouse           	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard Consumer Control	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)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard                 	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard                 	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard System Control  	id=13	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP TrueVision HD Camera: HP Tru         	id=15	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=16	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HP WMI hotkeys                          	id=17	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Wireless hotkeys                        	id=18	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ BY Tech Gaming Keyboard Consumer Control	id=19	[slave  keyboard (3)]

and my dmesg output when i grep i2c

[    1.973846] i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN0718:00: failed to fetch HID descriptor: -121
[    1.973851] i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN0718:00: Failed to fetch the HID Descriptor

Last edited by ashborn (2022-06-19 10:32:30)