Recently bought a t480 thinkpad installed xfce and im having issues with the trackpad sometimes it will lag like its not picking up my movements . I installed windows and it works fine on windows , when I boot to any linux distro its a 50/50 chance if it works .
If its lagging and I reboot it may fix it , if i go to terminal and run ; sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse it may take a few tries before it acts normal once its normal if i keep trying the comand it will eventually go back to acting up.
I’m not ruling out a bad motherboard but does any one have any suggestions before that ?
Hi,
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Lenovo ThinkPad T480 - ArchWiki TrackPoint and Touchpad
…also a firmware update may help - fwupd - ArchWiki is in the manjaro repo
provide some info,
Ok I ran fwupd no updates available, the modprode.d folder is empty .
my apology thought I posted in the xfce section , installed xf86-input-synaptics drivers and updated bios
thanks
sorry im a bit slow , added psmouse.config file and it made it worse lagging and jumping constantly so i removed it .
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchpad_Synaptics
section 4.6 , im not sure how to modify kernel to try this. or ill have to deal with it , it sounds like .
Enabling synaptics_intertouch=1 doesn’t mean you have to install the old xf86-input-synaptics driver. You misinterpreted that.
I inderstand , said that as something I tried it was one of the first things I did .
Here are some (more detailed) infos about X1C6, wich is pretty similar to T480.
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 6) - ArchWiki
- Lenovo X1C6 (2018): TrackPoint/Touchpad issues, 20KG model / Laptop Issues / Arch Linux Forums
Interesting parts are here and here. Read all please, and try to sort it out with “trial and error”. Make notes and back up your original configs.