I've had this laptop for about a month and the touchpad (ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad) was working fine. Yesterday that changed. I had this weird issue with my battery where it didn't recognize that I even had a battery (acpitool said battery: "not available") and therefore it would turn off right when I unplugged the charger, as if it were a desktop computer and not a portable laptop with a rechargeable battery. Anyway, after one of these shutdowns my touchpad stopped working. Now the battery is working fine but the touchpad is not. I checked out all of the similar questions on this site but none of them worked or matched my circumstances. Here are the details:
- No X11 cursor shows up.
- I'm running debian jessie with kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64.
- My touchpad is both recognized and enabled
- my synaptic touchpad package is fully updated
- xev shows no response from any interaction with the touchpad
- a usb mouse works, which I'm using right now
- I don't have an xorg.conf
Thanks all. I'll add anything that will help if asked. I cannot figure out what could be causing this.
@debian:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HD WebCam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
relevant crap in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
[ 3.878] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ETPS/2 Elantech
Touchpad (/dev/input/event2)
[ 3.878] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "evdev
touchpad catchall"
[ 3.878] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "touchpad
catchall"
[ 3.878] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "Default
clickpad buttons"
[ 3.878] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[ 3.879] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 3.880] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3.880] compiled for 1.16.0.901, module version = 1.8.99
[ 3.880] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[ 3.880] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[ 3.880] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'ETPS/2 Elantech \
Touchpad'
[ 3.880] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: always reports core events
[ 3.880] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2"
[ 3.913] (II) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: ignoring touch
events for semi-multitouch device
[ 3.913] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: x-axis range 0 -
3080 (res 0)
[ 3.913] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: y-axis range 0 -
1120 (res 0)
[ 3.913] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: pressure range 0 -
255
[ 3.913] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: finger width range
0 - 15
[ 3.913] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: buttons: left
right double triple
[ 3.914] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Vendor 0x2 Product
0xe
[ 3.914] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found
[ 3.914] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: always reports core events
[ 3.968] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042
/serio1/input/input2/event2"
[ 3.968] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ETPS/2 Elantech
Touchpad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 13)
[ 3.968] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MinSpeed
is now constant deceleration 2.5
[ 3.968] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MaxSpeed
is now 1.75
[ 3.968] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel)
AccelFactor is now 0.061
[ 3.968] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) keeping acceleration
scheme 1
[ 3.968] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[ 3.968] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration factor:
2.000
[ 3.968] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration
threshold: 4
[ 3.968] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found
[ 3.968] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ETPS/2 Elantech
Touchpad (/dev/input/mouse1)
[ 3.968] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Ignoring device from
InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"
