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redgrey

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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[SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

My touchpad stopped working when i booted it up. It's been working fine but it stopped working out of the blue.
I tried running "xinput list"

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 Elan TrackPoint                  	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ELAN Touchscreen                        	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=12	[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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]

i tried enabling it "xinput enable 12" but there is no difference. Everything(like trackpad...) other than the touchpad is working fine.

Last edited by redgrey (2025-09-02 18:43:46)

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

Did you recently upgrade your system?

redgrey

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Registered: 2025-09-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

It stopped working before i did any upgrade. But after it stopped working it tried upgrading my system but it didn't fix it.

redgrey

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Registered: 2025-09-02

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

Idk what really happened but i tried booting into Arch fallback and rebooted from there after that it started working again.

Thanks

cloverskull

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Registered: 2018-09-30

Posts: 277

Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

I've had this problem happen quite a bit and have never really figured it out. I use KDE Plasma and when the trackpad stops working, I plug in a USB mouse, open up settings, turn the trackpad off in settings, then turn it back on and it'll work. I haven't even begun to troubleshoot it though as I'm a bit lost.

lilydjwg

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 69

Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad stopped working

I had the same issue two days ago and libinput was printing "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded." errors. I thought it was because the cleanup I did earlier but it seems now it was because some updates. My issue was gone after I suspended my laptop for some time and woke it up.

Last edited by lilydjwg (2025-09-03 11:24:22)