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25hawkeye

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Registered: 2021-11-21

Posts: 8

Touchpad seemingly not working after using pulse audio sound control.

I have a Panasonic CF-74 (don't judge) running Linux zen 8.2.6, and I was trying to get my mic input to playback on my speakers with recording it and playing it back, then after i was happy I shut off the laptop. However, when I powered on the laptop later, my touchpad (synaptics / libinputs driver) didn't work at all on the desktop. Trying

 sudo libinput debug-events 

usually prompted me with

Jumping cursors, visit https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinpu … rsors.html

and when i click on the link, it says 404. Another thing to point out is that some times the mouse is completely useless, jitters, moves tiny increments, or only works in the login screen (sddm) and tty displays other than tty1.

Output of libinput:

event9  - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded.
See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinpu … rsors.html for details
event9  - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: WARNING: log rate limit exceeded (5 msgs per 24h). Discarding future messages.

My touchpad is event9
If any other logs are needed, let me know.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Touchpad seemingly not working after using pulse audio sound control.

pulse audio control and your touchpad have no relation. Did you do an update before shutting down? What was part of the update? Generally speaking touch jumps can be normal to a certain extent, FWIW this is the working link: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinpu … rsors.html

Do you see anything in/can you post the output of

dmesg