[arch-general] Touchpad doesn't work since boot ocasionally

[Sergei Sinyak]

I tried to reproduce problem and it looks like stable atleast twice.

Ill try to find clue with stopping gdm
On Apr 15, 2015 5:29 PM, "Sergei Sinyak" <serega.belarus at gmail.com> wrote:

> It stays: couldnt find synaptics properties
>
> Looks like it disappears on a hardware layer, because when it's working
> synclient reports list of properties.
>
> P.S. was trying to reproduce problem, and happend in the the following way:
> reboot, then systemctl stop gdm, reboot and that's it
> On Apr 15, 2015 4:37 PM, "Syrone Wong" <wong.syrone at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> check whether you have "synclient" installed and you can use command below
>> to check touchpad's status.
>> `synclient -l | grep -i "touchpadoff" | sed -e "s/\s*//g"`
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Sergei Sinyak <serega.belarus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > P.P.S.
>> >
>> > lspci does NOT show synaptic device
>> > On Apr 15, 2015 2:03 PM, "Sergei Sinyak" <serega.belarus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Kernel version linux 3.19-3
>> > >
>> > > Randomly synaptic doesn't work. Usually while booting there are
>> message
>> > > about psmouse module loading and detecting synaptic. But rarely there
>> are
>> > > no messages about loading driver. And of course it doesn't work.
>> > >
>> > > Im using gnome-shell as DM
>> > >
>> > > How can I try to detect it?
>> > >
>> > > While disappearing lspci also does show synaptic device. Any other
>> way?
>> > >
>> > > Ah, and reboot always turns touchpad back.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in advace.
>> > >
>> > > P.S. was experiencing it since 3.9 maybe or even earlier
>> > >
>> >
>>
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