On 3/7/24 04:15, Steinar Bang wrote:
CToID <funk...@yahoo.com.tw>:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#Touchpad_not_recognized_after_shutdown_from_Arch
Certain touchpads (Elantech in particular) will fail to be
recognized as a device of any sort after a standard shutdown from
Arch Linux.
This seems to fit your problem description.
Interesting. Is this a new thing or has the problem been there for a
while?
I can't tell from the above description.
The laptop has been running more or less continously, execpt for nightly
suspends, since I bought it in the summer of 2022, and I haven't noticed
anything strange with the touchpad before.
Also I don't have any windows to boot into. I scrubbed that when I
installed debian.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#MATE
MATE will by default overwrite various options for your touchpad.
Maybe your problem has something to do with MATE?
Could be. I tried disabling MATE config writing as outloned in the
above URL and logged out of the desktop and back in again.
But the touchpad still isn't working, unfortunately?
I do not know whether this is of any use to you, but I have an Acer
Aspire 5750G running Linux Mint Mate 21.3, on which, I run an external
monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and, after reading the first post in the
thread, I tried the keypad on that computer, and, it worked okay.
So, I think that it is not a Mate thing.
Perhaps, you could download the images for Ubuntu Mate 22.04 (and/or,
24.04) and Linux Mint Mate 21.3, and boot and run them as live images
(rather than installing them), to find how your keypad works with them.
This is where using a Ventoy drive is useful.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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