user845872
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Hi everyone, i am having trouble with the touchpad drivers on my new Elimina III 17.3 laptop running Fedora
I was expecting to have a little trouble using linux on this laptop (especially with Nvidia), but not this NIGHTMARE: every time i boot it's a russian roulette whether the touchpad works properly or not, and if it does, i shall NEVER close the lid or suspend it or it won't work again
And it's impossible to use it while not working properly: no sensitivity at all (nearly impossible to reach a little area such as an X on a corner of a window), no gestures such as double-finger scroll, impossible to deactivate it (even if the combination Fn+F1 for deactivating the touchpad works, the touchpad will ignore it and continue to be active) and the most annoying thing: it will be triggered while typing and move the cursor in random places
The most probable guess i had of what was causing this was the kernel that loaded the wrong module or recognized it as a generic wheel mouse instead of a touchpad, but by running a diff on lsmod and xinput commands in scenarios when it works or not, i detected no difference
I tried a lot of fixes, w(p)orkarounds (i've lost count of how many) but none of these seems to work, now i'm exhausted (frankly, i am thinking about returning this laptop and switching back to my old laptop due to this frustration...)
Has this ever happened to any of you? Is this nightmare solvable?
Should i open a Fedora bug report?
Also if you need some command outputs, just tell me what you need and i will provide it to you
Thank you
I was expecting to have a little trouble using linux on this laptop (especially with Nvidia), but not this NIGHTMARE: every time i boot it's a russian roulette whether the touchpad works properly or not, and if it does, i shall NEVER close the lid or suspend it or it won't work again
And it's impossible to use it while not working properly: no sensitivity at all (nearly impossible to reach a little area such as an X on a corner of a window), no gestures such as double-finger scroll, impossible to deactivate it (even if the combination Fn+F1 for deactivating the touchpad works, the touchpad will ignore it and continue to be active) and the most annoying thing: it will be triggered while typing and move the cursor in random places
The most probable guess i had of what was causing this was the kernel that loaded the wrong module or recognized it as a generic wheel mouse instead of a touchpad, but by running a diff on lsmod and xinput commands in scenarios when it works or not, i detected no difference
I tried a lot of fixes, w(p)orkarounds (i've lost count of how many) but none of these seems to work, now i'm exhausted (frankly, i am thinking about returning this laptop and switching back to my old laptop due to this frustration...)
Has this ever happened to any of you? Is this nightmare solvable?
Should i open a Fedora bug report?
Also if you need some command outputs, just tell me what you need and i will provide it to you
Thank you
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