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drvnprgrmr

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Registered: 2023-06-08

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Trackpad not registering touch or left and right buttons

Initially my trackpad didn't show up on xinput so I did a little debugging, found the Arch wiki on Linux for laptops and tried adding the kernel parameters:

i8042.noloop i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.reset

This worked and my trackpad now shows up using xinput:

Output of xinput

⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse            id=11    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control    id=12    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ CyPS/2 Cypress Trackpad                     id=15    [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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse            id=10    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse System Control    id=13    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=14    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Keyboard Mouse Consumer Control    id=16    [slave  keyboard (3)]

It still doesn't work though and when I check dmesg I find these error messages:

[ 1577.181822] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 1577.182461] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynced.
[ 1577.191017] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 1577.192079] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynced.
[ 1577.200942] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 1577.201832] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynced.
[ 1577.210742] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 1577.211760] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 - driver resynced.
[ 1577.238654] psmouse serio2: Trackpad at isa0060/serio2/input0 lost sync at byte 1

Now before you point me to some external links about "similar" problems, you should note that I've already done a lot of searching and the solutions proposed so far haven't worked.
Also here are some of the url's I've visited:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254363
https://askubuntu.com/questions/742080/ … pad-events
https://superuser.com/questions/909543/ … ronization
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=244563