I have been trying to get my ETPS/2 Elentech touchpad working on My Gigabyte P35 V5 Laptop with little success. I had just reinstalled the Offline Version yesterday and the touchpad wasn’t working. The next morning I woke up and booted my laptop and found that it was working mysteriously. I was afraid to update anything so I just attempted to install Timeshift for backups so that if something goes wrong I can revert to when it was working. However, in that moment my touchpad stopped working and timeshift didn’t install. Using a mouse via usb works, the touchpad doesn’t work with or without the mouse plugged in. I have placed Xorg.0.log and pacman.log in separate pastebins in the comments below:
The steps that I did immediately prior to my touchpad not working are as follows:
(I skipped the “sudo pacman -Syu” becuase of reasons explained above which might have been dumb on my part, but I don’t know.)
I hope that I will be able to find a solution on here because I really wanted to use it. I there are any more commands or information needed please let me know and I’ll happily oblige.
Edit:
I have reinstalled Endeavour OS. Installed Timeshift via yay timeshift. Then installed cronie for the crontab dependency and created a snapshot. The touchpad is still not working, but the usb mouse still works as it should. At least if it does start working I can make another snapshot to restore to that point if using timeshift can fix it. I would like to know what is causing this issue and the solution to fix it.
$ yay timeshift
3 aur/autoupgrade 1.0.0-1 (+1 0.87)
Automatic snapshot and then upgrade the system. (When the system fails, run `sudo timeshift --restore` and remove this package until the problem is solved.)
2 aur/timeshift-autosnap 0.9-1 (+9 0.81)
Timeshift auto-snapshot script which runs before package upgrade using Pacman hook.
1 aur/timeshift 20.03-1 (+117 5.79)
A system restore utility for Linux
==> Paquetes a instalar (eg.: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
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I didn’t want to update anything by accident. Should I do that or will that not help me with my touchpad issue? I see that I could have done that and I can’t turn back time now. (Haha joke)
I did the command:
sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics
and rebooted
Nothing changed
Also, when I shutdown it says something like watchdog did not stop. I’ve always had that an I figured to mention it in case if it was important.
