Hello there, for years now I have been struggling with Touchscreen on a laptop, regardless of the Linux Distro I use. This laptop used to run Linux Mint and later Ubuntu years ago and the touchscreen would work just perfectly fine, no problem whatsoever. But after a year or two the touchscreen just completely stopped working altogether. Even in Windows 10 stopped working after some time and there was no driver update or something like that. Now it runs openSUSE Tumbleweed only and when I run ‘xrandr’ and ‘xinput --list --name-only’, the touchscreen is actually seen and listed as a device on the system and I tried following an ArchLinux wiki page about touchscreen and installing the drivers and stuff but nothing has ever worked. I even downloaded and installed the eGalax proprietary touchscreen driver from the official web page and although the GUI program launches, it doesn’t do anything to the touchscreen whatsoever…
Can someone please help? Thank you very much in advance.
If it helps anyone the laptop in question is a Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 15D with openSUSE Tumbleweed installed.
@dj_var sure it’s not a hardware issue, if it stopped working in Windows… Nothing in the system BIOS about it?
Can’t really say for sure if it’s a hardware issue and nothing about it in the BIOS as it’s quite of a basic one…I mean maybe it could be. But I don’t know why that would be as it’s always been well kept and not dropped or anything. Might have to open it up and check the connector inside maybe, but again, never been touched or misused. I think back in the day when it stopped working it looked like some other users of this laptop experienced this issue after some time they upgraded from Win8 to Win10…very weird why even Lenovo would not release a Win10 driver on their site.