Linux os is really a problematic on Msi laptop.
My touchpad is toggled. This just happened again. Preivously it happened before, later , after restart or suspend it get itself fixed.
Now it happened again; and touchpad is no longer working.
When i turn on touchpad with physical button that is dedicated to toggle on/off mousepad, screen displayed Touchpad Off and vice versa.
When my touchpad is on, linux shows it is off; while linux shows it is on, actually it is off, of course touchpad won’t works.
what terminal command can be use to on and off touchpad ? so that i can twist it back to the correct state with the physical touchpad status.
I searched wiki.archlinux, there is not much that i can ultilize with my knowledge.
My laptop is equipped with Elantech Touchpad
$ find /sys/class/input/ -name mouse* -exec udevadm info -a {} \; | grep 'ATTRS{name}'
ATTRS{name}=="Logitech USB Receiver"
ATTRS{name}=="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Receiver Consumer Control id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ BisonCam, NB Pro: BisonCam, NB id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ MSI WMI hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Receiver Consumer Control id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Keyboard id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Keyboard System Control id=19 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Keyboard Consumer Control id=20 [slave keyboard (3)]
$inxi -v7
System: Kernel: 5.8.8-arch1-1 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine: Type: Desktop System: Micro-Star product: GP60 2QE v: REV:1.0
serial: <superuser/root required>
Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16GH v: REV:1.0 serial: <superuser/root required>
BIOS: American Megatrends v: E16GHIMS.10H date: 12/25/2014
Battery: ID-1: BAT1 charge: 11.3 Wh condition: 11.9/48.8 Wh (24%) volts: 12.4/11.1
model: MSI Corp. MS-16GH type: Unknown serial: N/A status: Unknown
Memory: RAM: total: 15.56 GiB used: 3.82 GiB (24.6%)
RAM Report: missing: Required program dmidecode not available
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4210H bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell
rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB bogomips: 23152
Speed: 976 MHz min/max: 800/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 891 2: 841 3: 871
4: 814
Graphics: Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:0416
Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nvidia
v: 450.66 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1347
Device-3: Acer MSI Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus ID: 1-1.4:5 chip ID: 5986:014c
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: intel,nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv resolution:
1: 1920x1080 2: 1920x1080~60Hz s-dpi: 96
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Drives: Local Storage: total: 6.84 TiB used: 2.62 TiB (38.4%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD5000LPVX-22V0TT0
size: 465.76 GiB speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: WD-WXB1AC4FCAS2
rev: 1A01 scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 3.0 Gb/s rotation: 5400 rpm serial: Y3CMT7EGT rev: 1U scheme: MBR
ID-3: /dev/sdc type: USB vendor: Samsung model: SanDisk Cruzer Blade
size: 14.59 GiB serial: 4C530000180819113595 rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD My Book 25EE
size: 5.46 TiB serial: 575835314431373546373256 rev: 4004 scheme: GPT
Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found.
Partition: ID-1: / size: 77.23 GiB used: 8.64 GiB (11.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
label: N/A uuid: e243610f-aeef-4cd0-8dea-3456638f11f6
ID-2: /home size: 838.16 GiB used: 17.46 GiB (2.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb2
label: N/A uuid: 3a129912-a5a6-460e-965a-e3007b28ce2b
ID-3: /run/media/enos-andrew/3profile-andrewadm size: 465.66 GiB
used: 349.64 GiB (75.1%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda2 label: 3profile-andrewadm
uuid: 28966C23966BF02C
ID-4: /run/media/enos-andrew/6TB My Book size: 5.46 TiB used: 2.25 TiB (41.3%)
fs: exfat dev: /dev/sdd1 label: 6TB My Book uuid: 54BA-47FC
ID-5: /run/media/enos-andrew/deja-dup_backup size: 14.30 GiB
used: 2.16 GiB (15.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1 label: deja-dup_backup
uuid: 0bba6865-1bc1-4436-8685-f2690c4d10ac
Swap: Alert: No Swap data was found.
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/sda1 size: 100.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: System Reserved
uuid: 7274632C7462F271
USB: Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:8008
Device-1: 1-1.2:3 info: Logitech Cordless Mouse Receiver type: Mouse,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
chip ID: 046d:c521
Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:07dc
Device-3: 1-1.4:5 info: Acer MSI Integrated Webcam type: Video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 5986:014c
Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 14 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 2-1:10 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 2109:2813
Hub: 2-1.1:11 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 2109:2813
Device-1: 2-1.1.1:12 info: SanDisk Cruzer Blade type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 0781:5567
serial: 4C530000180819113595
Device-2: 2-1.1.4:13 info: Logitech Keyboard K120 type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
chip ID: 046d:c31c
Hub: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0002
Hub: 3-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:8000
Device-1: 3-1.5:3 info: Western Digital My Book 25EE type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1058:25ee
serial: 575835314431373546373256
Hub: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003
Hub: 4-1:6 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip ID: 2109:0813
Hub: 4-1.1:7 info: VIA Labs VL813 Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip ID: 2109:0813
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 229 Uptime: 2d 2h 17m Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0
Packages: pacman: 1034 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.18 running in: konsole inxi: 3.1.06
