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Hello,
This is probably a stupid question.
I was trying to make 3 fingers-swipe work on my touchpad, and I stumbled upon this package, which seemed appropriate to me because xinput -list returned something with Elantech. It turns out it wasn't and the touchpad was broken after the next reboot and ever since. I uninstalled this package, readded psmouse with modprobe and I can effectively move my cursor and use both clicks with my touchpad, but synclient returns 'Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?', and of course no gesture is available.
I also found this line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log :
[ 75.720] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'PS/2 Elantech ETF1059 Click-Pad'
which I think is relevant to my problem because it would make sense to me that the input driver should be synaptics, not evdev. But I really have no idea what to do next.
Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
Last edited by drlkf00 (2014-09-07 14:48:32)
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I can see that this package contains a 'synaptics_api.patch' maybe you can figure out what this did ?
Assuming xf86-input-synaptics is installed (?), maybe try to reinstall it (maybe use -Rns to remove first).
Also then check or show us the related X config files. (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d )
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Hello, and thank you for your answer. I had tried removing xf86-input-synaptics completely as well as all X config files but nothing had worked, so I dumped all my config files and made a clean install. This isn't really what I was looking to do but I figured it would be too long and too much headache to try and solve it. I'll just be more careful with that kind of stuff next time.
Anyway, thank you again for your answer.
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