ELAN Touchpad not working in KDE

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So I have been browsing the Arch Wiki and saw this:

Touchpad

The touchpad does not work to begin with. It may work initially with libinput or synaptics, but only sometimes. The touchpad can be seen registered either as Elan Touchpad or ELAN0634:00 04F3:3124 in the Xorg logs. Since the touchpad only works, when it is seen registered as ELAN0634:00 04F3:3124 in the Xorglogs, the touchpad works quite randomly, but not consistently. To circumvent this, one has to blacklist the elan_i2c kernel module.

This seems to be the solution to the problem.
I have followed the steps on the Kernel Module - Wiki, to blacklist the elan_i2c kernel.

Solution

Create a .conf file inside /etc/modprobe.d/ and append a line for each module you want to blacklist, using the blacklist keyword.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf
blacklist elan_i2c

Edit: I now know how to post links :smiley: :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_Yoga_Slim_7_(AMD_Ryzen_7)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_module#Blacklisting

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