So basically my touchpad dosent work on any linux distro. I have tried Endavour os, Ubuntu and Fedora (KDE and Gnome), I am currently preparing to switch to Fedora Gnome from Windows 11 but my touchpad dosen’t seem to work. It sometimes dosent work at all or it works but its very stuttery/skippy. Also I am currently live booting Fedora Gnome to test out everything to determine if I can do everything that I need to. Also I am a total linux noob so please tell me if you need any outputs or anything. Since this is a live boot, I cannot edit kernel parameters (I think so) which most of the online solutions suggest. Also my touchpad is being detected via libinput as Elantech touchpad ETPS/2 and also as I said before that it is Skippy sometimes. Its random that sometimes it dosent work and sometimes it’s Skippy.
Edit: Testing the Live environment misses things that get fixed with updates. You may want to use a a USB mouse to run the installer.
Arch Linux often has good documentation and a useful wiki. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=299428 has kernel command-line settings for an “ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad”. You can try editing the kernel command-line in the grub2 editor to add psmouse.proto=bare i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop'. If this works you can make it permanent by editing /etc/default/grubto add the above toGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUXand then runningsudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
Also wanted to update that I got that skippy touchpad again. Here is the libinput debug list. Also this is booted with the parameters put in the above image. There are 3 touchpad devices detected and the debug shows input of Event 7 while the Elantech one is listed as Event 4.
