Touchpad not responding sometimes

Hi, I’m using Manjaro 21.2.1 Quonos with KDE. Sometimes, my touchpad doesn’t respond. I have observed this many times. Happy to provide any logs. :slight_smile:
The output of the below command is:
$ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.89-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64
    root=UUID=06d7363a-23c3-4c3d-97e3-3bc65484e084 ro quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X513IA_KM513IA
    v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X513IA v: 1.0 serial: <filter>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: X513IA.300 date: 06/05/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 18.3 Wh (52.0%) condition: 35.2/42.1 Wh (83.8%)
    volts: 11.8 min: 11.8 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
    status: Discharging cycles: 488
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.26 GiB used: 2.57 GiB (35.4%)
  Array-1: capacity: 32 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max-module-size: 16 GiB
    note: est.
  Device-1: DIMM 0 size: 4 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s type: DDR4
    detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Hynix part-no: HMA851S6CJR6N-XN serial: N/A
  Device-2: DIMM 0 size: 4 GiB speed: 3200 MT/s type: DDR4
    detail: synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) bus-width: 64 bits
    total: 64 bits manufacturer: Samsung part-no: M471A5244CB0-CWE
    serial: <filter>
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics socket: FP6 bits: 64
    type: MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8600103
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 512 KiB
    desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB
    desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1400 min/max: 1400/2000 boost: enabled
    base/boost: 2000/4200 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil
    volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 1400 2: 1400 3: 1400 4: 1400
    5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1400 bogomips: 31959
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists extapic extd_apicid
    f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs
    irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe
    msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx osvw overflow_recov pae
    pat pausefilter pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb
    pfthreshold pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a
    rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
    sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc
    tsc_scale umip v_vmsave_vmload vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall wbnoinvd wdt
    xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1636 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 3-3:3 chip-ID: 13d3:56a8 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
    loaded: amdgpu,ati unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.89-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet type: USB driver: ax88179_178a
    bus-ID: 2-2:2 chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  IF: enp3s0f3u2 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-2:2
    chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 70.22 GiB (6.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: SK Hynix
    model: HFM256GDJTNG-8310A size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 15.8 Gb/s lanes: 2 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 80001C00 temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 24d 9h cycles: 5,045
    read-units: 50,971,769 [26.0 TB] written-units: 8,901,433 [4.55 TB]
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital
    model: WD10SPZX-80Z10T2 family: Blue Mobile (SMR) size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: 1A04 temp: 30 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 158d 18h cycles: 5043
    Old-Age: g-sense error rate: 398
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 52.2 GiB size: 51.13 GiB (97.95%) used: 20.57 GiB (40.2%)
    fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 label: N/A
    uuid: 06d7363a-23c3-4c3d-97e3-3bc65484e084
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 260 MiB size: 256 MiB (98.46%)
    used: 66.8 MiB (26.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
    maj-min: 259:1 label: SYSTEM uuid: DA44-C033
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 34.8 GiB size: 34 GiB (97.71%)
    used: 25.21 GiB (74.1%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6
    maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A uuid: 941c21f5-3c1e-45ab-8989-ce9c68b0c218
  ID-4: /run/timeshift/backup raw-size: 30 GiB size: 29.36 GiB (97.86%)
    used: 24.37 GiB (83.0%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
    maj-min: 8:2 label: Manjaro-recovery
    uuid: ab4be4b9-eb3d-43ea-a32c-8763e70be217
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 11 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 label: N/A
    uuid: feb7c417-87a9-413c-ae17-fb925a517a01
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: N/A label: N/A
    uuid: N/A
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 139.18 GiB fs: ntfs label: OS
    uuid: DC20475720473832
  ID-3: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7 size: 1.03 GiB fs: ntfs
    label: RECOVERY uuid: E6BAAD46BAAD13D9
  ID-4: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 901.51 GiB fs: ntfs label: New Volume
    uuid: 800C3F790C3F6974
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 2-2:2 info: ASIX AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet type: Network
    driver: ax88179_178a interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 496mA
    chip-ID: 0b95:1790 class-ID: ff00 serial: <filter>
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-2:2 info: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb
    interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0029
    class-ID: e001
  Device-2: 3-3:3 info: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 13d3:56a8 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.8 C mobo: 38.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
  Processes: 263 Uptime: 12m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1392 pacman: 1389 lib: 384 flatpak: 3
  Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11

Try libinput debug-events and check if that reacts to touchpad activity

Had tried this earlier. My touchpad stops responding only for a few seconds. By the time I run the command, it is working fine. So, the command shows activity. :stuck_out_tongue:

Check if touchpad autosuspend is disabled (if not you can uninstall tlp):

sudo tlp-stat --usb

See these similar topics:

https://forum.manjaro.org/search?q=touchpad+not+working

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