Touchpad not working after update

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Hello,
I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my Acer aspire E1-572g. Yesterday I decided to do just another sudo zypper dup and after the restart, I can’t use my touchpad anymore.
It’s not the first time this happened: Last year it was exactly the same procedure, so I don’t think that it’s a specific update. I solved it last time by not using OpenSuse (not because of this but because of the missing amd driver) and reinstalling it a few weeks ago.
Some information:
“sudo /usr/sbin/hwinfo --mouse” only recognize my external usb mouse
Even if I unplug my mouse and stay in the logscreen, I still can’t use my touchpad
Synaptics is installed and up-to-date
In Settings->Input Devices I got Keyboard, Mouse and Joystick (which I don’t have and never had connected).

Anybody got an Idea? Thanks for the help already, witchent

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Hi witchent.

As you’re using Tumbleweed and this issue is likely to be related to that (eg kernel version), I’ll shift this to the appropriate forum

https://forums.opensuse.org/forumdisplay.php/677-Tumbleweed-Evergreen-and-PreRelease-Beta

NNTP users - please don’t respond until it’s moved.

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Moved from Laptop forum. Open again for posting.

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Thanks for moving the thread first.
And secondly: I think you can close it, it just started to work again. I did nothing, I didn’t even update my system, but it just started to work again. Thanks anyway

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On a recent Tumbleweed update, I noticed:

(1) synaptiks was removed;
(2) kcm_touchpad was installed.

However, kcm_touchpad did not do anything until after I rebooted. After rebooting, the settings that I used to make in “synaptiks” could now be made in the Input Devices configuration module.

You were probably seeing something similar.

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Glad to hear that it is working again. However, we don’t generally close threads, or mark as solved.

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Thanks for chiming in here. That would explain it. :slight_smile:

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On 2015-01-31 00:46, deano ferrari wrote:
>
> nrickert;2692232 Wrote:
>> On a recent Tumbleweed update, I noticed:
>>
>> (1) synaptiks was removed;
>> (2) kcm_touchpad was installed.
>>
>> However, kcm_touchpad did not do anything until after I rebooted. After
>> rebooting, the settings that I used to make in “synaptiks” could now be
>> made in the Input Devices configuration module.
>>
>> You were probably seeing something similar.
> Thanks for chiming in here. That would explain it. :slight_smile:

And it is something that only the people tracking tumbleweed would know
about it. Moving the post here was very appropriate :wink:

Tumbleweed is on the edge of things :slight_smile:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)