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Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

From Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5
Date 2024-07-02 22:40 +0200
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On 3/7/24 04:15, Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>> CToID <funk443@yahoo.com.tw>:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#Touchpad_not_recognized_after_shutdown_from_Arch
> 
>> Certain touchpads (Elantech in particular) will fail to be
>>    recognized as a device of any sort after a standard shutdown from
>>   Arch Linux.
> 
>> This seems to fit your problem description.
> 
> Interesting.  Is this a new thing or has the problem been there for a
> while?
> 
> I can't tell from the above description.
> 
> The laptop has been running more or less continously, execpt for nightly
> suspends, since I bought it in the summer of 2022, and I haven't noticed
> anything strange with the touchpad before.
> 
> Also I don't have any windows to boot into. I scrubbed that when I
> installed debian.
> 
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics#MATE
> 
>> MATE will by default overwrite various options for your touchpad.
> 
>> Maybe your problem has something to do with MATE?
> 
> Could be.  I tried disabling MATE config writing as outloned in the
> above URL and logged out of the desktop and back in again.
> 
> But the touchpad still isn't working, unfortunately?
> 

I do not know whether this is of any use to you, but I have an Acer 
Aspire 5750G running Linux Mint Mate 21.3, on which, I run an external 
monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and, after reading the first post in the 
thread, I tried the keypad on that computer, and, it worked okay.

So, I think that it is not a Mate thing.

Perhaps, you could download the images for Ubuntu Mate 22.04 (and/or, 
24.04) and Linux Mint Mate 21.3, and  boot and run them as live images 
(rather than installing them), to find how your keypad works with them.

This is where using a Ventoy drive is useful.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2024-07-02 20:30 +0200
  Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2024-07-02 22:20 +0200
    Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian  12.5 Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-07-02 22:40 +0200
  [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2024-07-06 08:50 +0200
    Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped  working on debian 12.5 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-07-07 03:00 +0200
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on  debian 12.5 "Jeremy Nicoll" <jn.ml.dbi.73@letterboxes.org> - 2024-07-07 11:30 +0200
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2024-08-17 11:00 +0200
    Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped  working on debian 12.5 Keith Bainbridge <keithrbau@gmail.com> - 2024-07-07 11:20 +0200
      Re: [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5 Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> - 2024-08-17 11:00 +0200

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