Trackpad doesn't work on Dell laptop fresh install

After installing Manjaro, my trackpad doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t move the mouse pointer or click or scroll. When I was using the live install, the trackpad worked as expected. I have a brand new Dell Inspiron 15" laptop. I installed xf86-input-synaptics using pacman and rebooted, but it didn’t change anything for me. I’m not sure where to go from here to solve this problem. I’d appreciate any help, thanks.

Are you sure you need that?
If yes, then maybe you need to tweak the conf file Touchpad Synaptics - ArchWiki

AFAIK the live media is only using libinput so, maybe you just need the conf file either from /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ or/and the one from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ from live media to your system …

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