[arch-general] Touchpad not recognized

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 04/18/2011 01:26 PM, Xianwen Chen 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

Check "lsmod | grep evdev".  If it doesn't show the evdev module loaded, 
then try "sudo modprobe evdev".

HTH,

DR