[arch-general] Touchpad not recognized

[Xianwen Chen]

Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the heads up! I tried to reboot several times, but it didn't 
work.

Xianwen


On 04/18/2011 07:44 PM, Timothy L. wrote:
> 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.
>