No touchpad after booting up

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#1

Hi,

My touch pad (Dell inspiron 15 5555) doesn’t work after my Leap boots up, in the first 10-20 seconds it works but suddenly it stops working.
I also had this issue during the installation, at first I had touch pad but after a couple of seconds it stopped working.
I don’t have this problem in Tumbleweed.
I also read about it but couldn’t find any solution for that.

any help would be appreciated .

Thanks

#2

Please write which GUI you’re using: KDE, GNOME, something else?

Please note the Touchpad issue noted in the Leap 42.3 Release Notes: <https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/42.3/> Section “2.1.2 Synaptics Touchpad Driver with KDE Plasma”.

#3

I’m using KDE,
but I didn’t have touch pad during setup as well.
I do have touchpad in Tumbleweed and also in Kubuntu.

I also took a look at this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/592925/dell-inspiron-3551-unresponsive-touchpad, hoping find some clues, but didn’t work out.

What should I do? :frowning:

THanks

#4

Since you report no problems with TW, perhaps upgrading the kernel (for your Leap install) will help here.

zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ kernel

zypper ref

zypper dup -r kernel

then reboot, and check touchpad behaviour

#5

Hi Deano,
Many many thanks,
It worked! and now I have my touchpad working,
I really appreciate it.:):wink:

Best Regards,

#6

Fantastic!