For almost two years now linux will only detect may touchpad with a janky workaround I will describe below.
When booting up the touchpad is never detected, only visible using the find command like this:
The touchpad works as expected after this.
The issue has persisted since kernel 5.9 and I am now on 5.19.
The Laptop is an Ideapad flex 5 14are05
If you need more info please tell me.
Thank you for the answer, however that does not work. I can manually load the module, however as I mentioned in the initial post, this only results in the same error.
This is with the module loaded and the touchpad not working:
What a shame. Does the same happen with the fallback kernel as with the default one?
However… such an error is fully depended from the UEFI firmware. The laptop was made only for windows. Maybe try a BIOS upgrade, but I guess on Linux you can’t do anything. No idea how experienced you are, but a you can create custom acpi tables: Upgrading ACPI tables via initrd — The Linux Kernel documentation
please open your own thread describing your problem and your hardware. even if the symptoms seem to be the same it could (and very often is) something different. for this reason it is not a good manner to hijack the thread of someone else.