After an update my touchpad turned into a pumpkin

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I installed fresh Fedora 41 KDE spin, my touchpad worked flawlessly, but after the first update and reboot it lost tap-to-click ability (it may do click sometimes, if I tap 5-7 times very fast) , even though it is still enabled in KDE settings. Now it feels very sluggish and unresponsive overall.

Any ideas how to make it function normal again?

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Did you try booting it with the previous kernel? It should still be installed.

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Yes, nothing changed, still bad.

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Is it possible to downgrade KDE? Because I think it might be related to the KDE update.

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There is a dnf rollback command. You’ll will probably need to install the fedora-archives repo before it will work to downgrade all of KDE. I’ll see if I can find some instructions …

Edit: Here is some documentation: Fedora - dnf history with fedora-repos-archive | JOURNAL.ROBBI.MY

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Thank you. But I’m afraid I can mess up even more things trying this.

If there’s no more relatively easy solutions I can try, I will buy a mouse and hope that this will be fixed in future updates.

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That is a legit concern. I would probably do the same. :slightly_smiling_face:

I don’t know of any easy solutions. The best solution to prevent future updates from putting your system in an unrecoverable state would be to use Btrfs snapshots. But that would need to be done in advance and it is not at all trivial.

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That is not a real option. File a bug report with them and see if you can find the issue.

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Too many things are not trivial with Linux, at least for me :smiling_face_with_tear:

This is not trivial too, because it happened after I updated nearly everything, so it would be hard to pinpoint exact reason.
Plus it might be specific to my hardware, so I don’t want to bother anyone, if it’s just me.

UPD: well, after couple of reboots it just started to work properly again. I’m pretty sure it’s not my touchpad’s fault, because it was reproducible with other distro I installed (fine after installation, bad after updating to KDE 6.3). But anyway.

Topic should be deleted.

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There are likely other users with the same problem, so better to leave the topic so they can see your solution.

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