Elantech Touchpad Not Working Acer Aspire

I have an Aspire A715-72G, latest BIOS running Manjaro GNOME with kernel 5.16.5-1. GNOME did something strange where it wouldn’t boot into the desktop, so I had to reinstall Manjaro. Since that happened, my trackpad will not work. Checked the trackpad setting in GNOME and its’ turned on. I went into BIOS and set the trackpad setting from “advanced” to “basic” but that didn’t solve the problem. The trackpad shows up under libinput, but does not function.

I tried booting into Manjaro using a USB stick and the trackpad still does not work. It was working fine a few days ago, before GNOME wouldn’t boot. Not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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System:
  Host: nick-aspirea71572g Kernel: 5.16.5-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64
    compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.16-x86_64
    root=UUID=d0e669e0-ea5c-4eb7-9cbf-3308ee357b46 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=f825f695-933e-4827-b4bc-a49116c71ba6
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME 41.3 tk: GTK 3.24.31 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 41.3
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A715-72G v: V1.26
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: CFL model: Charmeleon_CFS v: V1.26 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Insyde v: 1.26 date: 03/27/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 43.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 43.9/48.9 Wh (89.6%)
    volts: 17.0 min: 15.2 model: LG PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: 41167
    status: Full
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510
    serial: 4051-32-e7-8c-6c charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
    status: Discharging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.61 GiB used: 2.68 GiB (35.2%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
PCI Slots:
  Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake
    family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10) microcode: 0xEA
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB
    L3: 9 MiB desc: 1x9 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4100 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
    8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 52815
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon
    art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
    cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
    f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
    hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm
    lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx
    pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36
    pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2
    sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
    tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
    xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
    mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile]
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nvidia v: 510.47.03
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c8c
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Quanta HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-5:3
    chip-ID: 0408:a060 class-ID: 0e02 serial: 200901010001
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.21.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
    resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
    chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.16.5-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.45 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000
    bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp6s0f1 state: down mac: 98:28:a6:28:d5:93
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lite-On driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel bus-ID: 07:00.0
    chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp7s0 state: up mac: 00:f4:8d:89:e4:e5
  IP v4: 10.201.105.253/24 type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: 10.201.105.255
  IP v6: fe80::360a:fec0:346f:fb16/64 type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: 172.85.116.2
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Lite-On type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5
    chip-ID: 04ca:3016 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: N/A
    class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 14.46 GiB (12.1%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS128G39TND-N210A
    size: 119.24 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: EJ89N72401030A330 rev: 1P10 scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 110.15 GiB size: 107.86 GiB (97.92%)
    used: 14.46 GiB (13.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
    uuid: d0e669e0-ea5c-4eb7-9cbf-3308ee357b46
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 2130-A303
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: swap
    uuid: f825f695-933e-4827-b4bc-a49116c71ba6
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-4:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID
    driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: 1-5:3 info: Quanta HD Webcam type: Video driver: uvcvideo
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA chip-ID: 0408:a060
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: 200901010001
  Device-3: 1-8:4 info: Elan Micro ELAN:Fingerprint type: <vendor specific>
    driver: N/A interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
    chip-ID: 04f3:0c03 class-ID: 0000
  Device-4: 1-14:5 info: Lite-On type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04ca:3016
    class-ID: e001
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C pch: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pacman: 1207 lib: 335 flatpak: 0
  Active pacman repo servers in: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1: https://repo.ialab.dsu.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3: https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 305
  1: cpu: 16.4% command: librewolf pid: 1730 mem: 501.7 MiB (6.4%)
  2: cpu: 5.0% command: librewolf pid: 2207 mem: 238.1 MiB (3.0%)
  3: cpu: 4.8% command: nautilus pid: 3375 mem: 87.9 MiB (1.1%)
  4: cpu: 3.9% command: xorg pid: 725 mem: 152.5 MiB (1.9%)
  5: cpu: 3.7% command: gnome-shell pid: 835 mem: 288.0 MiB (3.6%)
  Memory top: 5 of 305
  1: mem: 501.7 MiB (6.4%) command: librewolf pid: 1730 cpu: 16.4%
  2: mem: 288.0 MiB (3.6%) command: gnome-shell pid: 835 cpu: 3.7%
  3: mem: 238.1 MiB (3.0%) command: librewolf pid: 2207 cpu: 5.0%
  4: mem: 208.4 MiB (2.6%) command: librewolf pid: 2489 cpu: 0.3%
  5: mem: 193.4 MiB (2.4%) command: librewolf pid: 2011 cpu: 1.2%
Info:
  Processes: 305 Uptime: 44m wakeups: 5 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.12

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You can try booting an older (or newer) kernel. You can use Manjaro Settings Manager from the menu to install kernels and check which one is running. Hold Shift during boot to choose which kernel to boot.