[arch-general] Touchpad not recognized

[Timothy L.]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Archers,
>
> I'm runnig Arch X64 on a Dell Latitude E5410. The touchpad is not
> recognized as
>
> "xinput list" only shows following:
>
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
> ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer
>  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                          id=12    [slave  pointer
>  (2)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
>    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Power Button                                id=6    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Video Bus                                   id=7    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Power Button                                id=8    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Sleep Button                                id=9    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2M                 id=10    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard                id=11    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>    ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys                            id=13    [slave  keyboard
> (3)]
>
> xf86-input-synaptics and xf86-input-evdev are installed on the system.
>
> Does someone have an idea on how to fix the problem? ;)
>
> Xianwen
>
>
>
My touchpad wasn't recognized either after restarting a few days ago, but
restarting again fixed it for whatever reason. I guess the module can fail
to load sometimes.