Fedora 42 on Huawei Matebook GT 14 Touchscreen didn't work

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Hi.My Huawei Matebook GT 14 touchscreen didn’t work.How to fix it?

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Hi. I had the same problem on Matebook 14 2024. Here’s my fix.
This is my first ever contribution to a linux community :smiley:
I don’t know if it’s the correct way to solve this problem, but now the touchscreen works (even the 2 and 3 fingers gestures). The only problem is that if you go on settings you will not find the touchscreen settings and you will still see the input stylus error.

From terminal, check if the touchscreen is detected:

sudo evtest

You should see something like:

/dev/input/eventXX:	FTSC1000:00 2808:5662

Select the device number and touch the screen. If the touchscreen is event4, just type 4 and enter

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If you don’t see any events, the touchscreen is detected but not working. For “event” I mean realtime events, other things will appear on terminal, but the touchscreen works only if the events are detected real time. If no events are detected. Type:

sudo modprobe -r hid_multitouch
sudo modprobe -r i2c_hid_acpi 
sudo modprobe i2c_hid_acpi
sudo modprobe hid_multitouch

I suggest to do all the command at once beacuse you will have problems finding your cursor.
Now the touchscreen should work. You can do evtest again and see the difference. The problem now is that this a temporary solution (when you restart the PC the touchscreen will no longer work).

With the help of AI, I made this script:

sudo nano /usr/local/bin/fix-touchscreen

Paste this:

#!/bin/bash
modprobe -r hid_multitouch
modprobe -r i2c_hid_acpi
sleep 2
modprobe i2c_hid_acpi
modprobe hid_multitouch

Make executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/fix-touchscreen

Create systemd service:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/touchscreen-fix.service

Content:

[Unit]
Description=Fix Huawei MateBook Touchscreen
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/fix-touchscreen
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the service

sudo systemctl enable touchscreen-fix.service

The problem was the loading of the driver. With this commands you will find the errors

sudo dmesg | grep -i ftsc

sudo dmesg | grep -i acpi | grep -i error
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As someone who has a huawei matebook 14 laptop with a touch screen, I can happily say that this worked for me! Thanks a lot!