Acer laptop / Tumbleweed / Touchpad not working

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Hello,

I have just installed Tumbleweed on my Acer laptop. For some reason, the touchpad does not work. Can I have some help please?

Thank you.

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What is returned by the following commands?

sudo libinput list-devices
dmesg | egrep -i "input|i8042"

Maybe the definitive machine model details as well…

inxi -Ma
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Device:           SYNA7DAB:01 06CB:CDF0 Touchpad
Kernel:           /dev/input/event2
Group:            8
Seat:             seat0, default
Size:             102x62mm
Capabilities:     pointer gesture
Tap-to-click:     disabled
Tap-and-drag:     enabled
Tap drag lock:    disabled
Left-handed:      disabled
Nat.scrolling:    disabled
Middle emulation: disabled
Calibration:      n/a
Scroll methods:   *two-finger edge 
Click methods:    *button-areas clickfinger 
Disable-w-typing: enabled
Disable-w-trackpointing: enabled
Accel profiles:   flat *adaptive custom
Rotation:         n/a


Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A514-54 v: V1.26
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: TGL model: Lily_TL v: V1.26 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 0000000000000000 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.26
    date: 03/14/2022


[    1.680871] [    T371] input: SYNA7DAB:01 06CB:CDF0 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.3/i2c_designware.1/i2c-1/i2c-SYNA7DAB:01/0018:06CB:CDF0.0001/input/input2
[    1.848672] [    T371] input: SYNA7DAB:01 06CB:CDF0 Touchpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.3/i2c_designware.1/i2c-1/i2c-SYNA7DAB:01/0018:06CB:CDF0.0001/input/input5
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Ok, so that confirms that the toupchpad is detected, and libinput enumerates the associated kernel device as expected. Are you saying that it is not responsive at all? Any other pointing devices attached concurrently?

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Slightly different model (same issue) mentioned in this thread.

One issue was I couldn’t get the touchpad working. I tried a lot of things until I noticed that small icon on the F10 key… which (with fn+F10) disables/enables the touchpad… The current state is not indicated anywhere, also not in Settings / Mouse and Touchpad — disabling/enabling there is silently overridden by fn+F10.

Just in case this is relevant to your situation.

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Ha! It was F7 indeed! Thanks!

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I’m glad it was just disabled via the keyboard. Glad to have been of help.

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