I installed manjaro hoping Acer Aspeire’s touchpad will work, but it wasn’t.
Before it, I tried it on debian, but there is the same.
In BIOS, the I2C setting is set and there is PS/2 one. I tried both ones, but the touchpad doesn’t work.
I found and installed i2c-tools package - not work.
Asking Google about “acer aspire a3 touchpad linux” I found two essentially different ways people have solved this.
One is through a Bios setting.
The other is by adding some parameters to the boot loader command line.
All the links are to the Mint forum - but Linux is Linux is Linux
and what applies there, does apply everywhere.
So:
see whether one of these ways can help you as well.
first link
second link
third link
As mentioned in at least one of these threads:
info on your hardware (inxi -zv8
) is the minimum information needed for anyone to attempt to help
ps:
I don’t know why I searched for “aspire a3” instead of what you actually wrote
I just noticed the error
unconscious bias or a simple typo
… perhaps it helps anyway
Thanks very much! I going to mark the issue as a solution and think about suggested acts, because I am afraid of breaking something (I have a lot of experience with it ).
so:
you don’t know it is a solution, but you still mark it as such?
because you didn’t dare or try to test and confirm or deny?
potentially leading others astray?
Can’t accept that.
Will report it - to remove the “solution” mark.
Because it isn’t a solution.
Not until you confirm it.
It’s not obvious when new, but when in doubt in providing information for help, try to provide the output of inxi -v8z
The touchpad is configured differently in X11 and Wayland, sometimes your desktop environment is a major factor too. The output of that command would have all that information in there, plus so much more.
I ran into one laptop, just 2 months ago,where it was impossible for me to get it working in Wayland after 100 hours of troubleshooting, and I had to go back to X11.
as far as I’m concerned: it’s all in those linked threads
but
he didn’t even try
and I had the solution mark removed by powers greater than him
I predict this thread may become a zombie.
I apologise to everyone for wasting your time.
The touchpad is working - it’s just that I inadvertently didn’t see that the touchpad was locked (literally with a key). That’s and apparently the touchpad works out of the box in manjaro and debian.
I’m really sorry.
Yay!
easy peasy
Thank’s for the feedback!
Problem was situated between the keyboard and the chair.