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petipeter

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Registered: 2024-09-15

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[SOLVED] Touchpad doesn't workon HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec0000nh

I can't get the touchpad (ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad, according to Ubuntu xinput) to work on my laptop.

I got it to work on Ubunutu using the following GRUB configs:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash psmouse.proto=bare"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"

I am using i3-wm (or at least trying to use, I'm still an Arch and i3 newbie).

How can I get it to work?
Thanks in advance.

Last edited by petipeter (2024-09-15 11:58:24)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad doesn't workon HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec0000nh

Have you tried the Ubuntu GRUB configuration in Arch?

Reference: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters

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petipeter

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Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad doesn't workon HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec0000nh

I got it working. The touchpad shows up as a PS/2 Mouse, but I already knew it would and I don't really mind it.

Somewhat curiously, by adding the parameters to the default Arch GRUB config didn't seem to do anything, but with the default Ubuntu GRUB config, it works.

Here's the modified Ubuntu config in case someone needs it:

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`( . /etc/os-release; echo ${NAME:-Ubuntu} ) 2>/dev/null || echo Ubuntu`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash psmouse.proto=bare"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnpi8042.noloop"

# If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
# probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
# for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
# os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
# filesystems to look for things.
#GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"