Touchpad buttons only work sporadically

rpallen · 2020-10-28 20:59:53

I'm not sure if this is an installation issue or not.

I just got a Vaio FE15 laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed. I added Arch from the October iso on the Arch website. It seems to be working fine except for the “touchpad”. I can move the cursor around fine with using the touchpad. But the buttons work sporadically. And saying “sporadically” is generous. I can click with them only rarely. Sometimes I’ll click something and I won’t be able to click again for 20 seconds or more. I can’t tell if this is a time related thing or if I’m doing something that cuases the button to work again for a click or two.

I connected a usb mouse and had no problems with the mouse. In fact, while the mouse is connected, if I move the cursor over a button using the touchpad and try to click it with the touchpad button, if that doesn’t work, I can successfully click with the usb mouse.

When I boot up the windows, there’s no such problem.

Note: When I installed Arch today I installed both linux and linux-lts. I had the problem in both of them.

Any ideas how to correct this?

ewaller · 2020-10-28 21:09:24

Xorg or Wayland? Did you install the synaptics driver foe xorg? (Not recommended, by the way)
Gnome? i3? kde?

rpallen · 2020-10-28 21:26:40

Xorg Sorry, I forgot to say XFCE. I did not intentionally install any synaptics drivers. If one was installed, it was because it was a dependency of something else. I don't know if this is relevant, but I did install intel-ucode.

Last edited by rpallen (2020-10-28 21:27:42)

ewaller · 2020-10-28 21:46:35

Okay, that sounds like a sane set up. What is the output of xinput ?? Then, use the id for the touchpad from that list and run it through xinput list-props id and post that (where id is the integer from the xinput output)

Last edited by ewaller (2020-10-28 21:47:04)

rpallen · 2020-10-28 22:42:10

How do I get the output of xinput I tried running xinput in a terminal window and got a command not found error. I tried installing it (pacman -S xinput) and got a target not found error.

Nevermind, I installed it with xorg-xinput. There are 2 entries for the synaptic device, one says mouse and one says touchpad. Which shoud I use

Last edited by rpallen (2020-10-28 22:47:35)

rpallen · 2020-10-28 22:51:10

Here`s the mouse output?

[randall@vaio2020 ~]$ xinput list-props 11
Device 'SYNA3602:00 0911:5288 Mouse':
Device Enabled (170): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (172): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (305): 0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (306): 0
libinput Scroll Methods Available (307): 0, 0, 1
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (308): 0, 0, 1
libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (309): 0, 0, 1
libinput Button Scrolling Button (310): 3
libinput Button Scrolling Button Default (311): 3
libinput Button Scrolling Button Lock Enabled (312): 0
libinput Button Scrolling Button Lock Enabled Default (313): 0
libinput Accel Speed (314): 0.580000
libinput Accel Speed Default (315): 0.000000
libinput Accel Profiles Available (316): 1, 1
libinput Accel Profile Enabled (317): 1, 0
libinput Accel Profile Enabled Default (318): 1, 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled (319): 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (320): 0
libinput Send Events Modes Available (290): 1, 0
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (291): 0, 0
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (292): 0, 0
Device Node (293): "/dev/input/event17"
Device Product ID (294): 2321, 21128
libinput Drag Lock Buttons (321): <no items>
libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (322): 1

rpallen · 2020-10-28 22:52:21

And here`s the touchpad output.

[randall@vaio2020 ~]$ xinput list-props 12
Device 'SYNA3602:00 0911:5288 Touchpad':
Device Enabled (170): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (172): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
libinput Tapping Enabled (323): 0
libinput Tapping Enabled Default (324): 0
libinput Tapping Drag Enabled (325): 1
libinput Tapping Drag Enabled Default (326): 1
libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled (327): 0
libinput Tapping Drag Lock Enabled Default (328): 0
libinput Tapping Button Mapping Enabled (329): 1, 0
libinput Tapping Button Mapping Default (330): 1, 0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled (305): 0
libinput Natural Scrolling Enabled Default (306): 0
libinput Disable While Typing Enabled (331): 1
libinput Disable While Typing Enabled Default (332): 1
libinput Scroll Methods Available (307): 1, 1, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled (308): 1, 0, 0
libinput Scroll Method Enabled Default (309): 1, 0, 0
libinput Click Methods Available (333): 1, 1
libinput Click Method Enabled (334): 1, 0
libinput Click Method Enabled Default (335): 1, 0
libinput Middle Emulation Enabled (336): 0
libinput Middle Emulation Enabled Default (337): 0
libinput Accel Speed (314): 0.520000
libinput Accel Speed Default (315): 0.000000
libinput Accel Profiles Available (316): 1, 1
libinput Accel Profile Enabled (317): 1, 0
libinput Accel Profile Enabled Default (318): 1, 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled (319): 0
libinput Left Handed Enabled Default (320): 0
libinput Send Events Modes Available (290): 1, 1
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (291): 0, 0
libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (292): 0, 0
Device Node (293): "/dev/input/event18"
Device Product ID (294): 2321, 21128
libinput Drag Lock Buttons (321): <no items>
libinput Horizontal Scroll Enabled (322): 1

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#1 2020-10-28 20:59:53

Touchpad buttons only work sporadically

#2 2020-10-28 21:09:24

Re: Touchpad buttons only work sporadically

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