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I am running a dual boot Windows 10 and Arch. I first noticed that my touchpad wasn't working after I left my mouse (Razer Taipan, if that matters) plugged in on poweroff. Upon booting again, I couldn't use my touchpad at all. It was the first time I used that mouse on Arch though it seems unlikely that this could be the cause of my problems. The touchpad works on Windows. The issue persisted across a fresh install of Arch and a BIOS update, and does not seem to be the issue of accidentally pressing my Fn+F7 keys. I tried a liveUSB of Debian and the touchpad doesn't appear to work there either.
My laptop is an Acer Aspire E5-571. This is the output of xinput list:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN0501:00 04F3:300B Touchpad 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)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HD WebCam id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Acer WMI hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
The output of xinput list 14:
ELAN0501:00 04F3:300B Touchpad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
Reporting 8 classes:
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIButtonClass
Buttons supported: 12
Button labels: "Button Left" "Button Middle" "Button Right" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Down" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right" None None None None None
Button state:
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 0:
Label: Rel X
Range: 0.000000 - 3239.000000
Resolution: 31000 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 1:
Label: Rel Y
Range: 0.000000 - 2347.000000
Resolution: 32000 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 2:
Label: Rel Horiz Scroll
Range: 0.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIValuatorClass
Detail for Valuator 3:
Label: Rel Vert Scroll
Range: 0.000000 - -1.000000
Resolution: 0 units/m
Mode: relative
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 2
type: 2 (horizontal)
increment: 79.000000
flags: 0x0
Class originated from: 14. Type: XIScrollClass
Scroll info for Valuator 3
type: 1 (vertical)
increment: 79.000000
flags: 0x0
Class originated from: 14. Type: XITouchClass
Touch mode: dependent
Max number of touches: 3
Not sure what else I should provide, but I will if it helps with this problem. I'm fairly new to Arch (and Linux in general). Thanks in advance.
Last edited by paced (2016-03-09 06:24:06)
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have you installed "xf86-input-synaptics" ?
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Yes, I did that before I first ran startx.
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you may try "libinput" in that case
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I did, and it didn't seem to fix it. The output for libinput-list-devices is:
Device: ELAN0501:00 04F3:300B Touchpad
Kernel: /dev/input/event9
Group: 7
Seat: seat0, default
Size: 104.48x73.34mm
Capabilities: pointer
Tap-to-click: disabled
Tap-and-drag: enabled
Tap drag lock: disabled
Left-handed: disabled
Nat.scrolling: disabled
Middle emulation: n/a
Calibration: n/a
Scroll methods: *two-finger edge
Click methods: *button-areas clickfinger
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Accel profiles: none
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sudo pacman -Syu fixed my problem. Still not sure what happened. Solved.
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