Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, at 01:56, David Wright wrote: > To answer the question in the rant, "why the f* does this button > exist"... A more fundamental issue can be that some machines have an option in the BIOS that dictates whether keys (mostly but not exclusively the F1-F12 ones) which have

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-07 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 6/7/24 16:39, Steinar Bang wrote: Steinar Bang : Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I figured something had

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-06 Thread David Wright
On Sat 06 Jul 2024 at 08:39:57 (+0200), Steinar Bang wrote: > > Steinar Bang : > > > Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad > > stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. > > > At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the

[SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-06 Thread Steinar Bang
> Steinar Bang : > Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad > stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. > At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I > figured something had gone wrong during the time and a

Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/7/24 04:15, Steinar Bang wrote: CToID : 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.

Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread Steinar Bang
> CToID : > 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

Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread CToID
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.

Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-02 Thread Steinar Bang
Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I figured something had gone wrong during the time and a reboot would fix it. So in