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Hi, I could not find a relevant post so I hope anybody will have an idea:
my touchpad (on Dell D830) stopped responding after I experimented with the AUR package psmouse-elantech. Now it seems the device is not recognized at all. I actually have dual boot with Mint and everything works there so the hardware should be fine.
EDIT: With the recent update of kernel (to 3.7.3-1-ARCH) the problem disappeared. Marking solved but the cause is not clear for me since I tried to re-install kernel too.
output of xinput:
[david@archlinux Downloads]$ xinput
⎡ 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)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
I should see something like this:
⎡ 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)]
⎜ ↳ DualPoint Stick id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard
....
I use evdev without xf86-input-synaptics installed. In the past this worked fine except of some missing touchpad features. Installing synaptics driver did not help.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf :
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
I suspect this is something around dkms installed by the above package but my knowledge does not go that far. Any hints are appreciated.
Last edited by digitalis (2013-01-21 21:06:55)
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