My touchpad stops responding at random. I’m using, whether I’m working, or just browsing, the touchpad stops responding, for 10-30 seconds, and then goes back to normal. It’s an annoyance more than anything. Not sure if this happens in other distros, I often try other distros, but end up back at Fedora again, and I have a mouse for most of the time.
I don’t know exactly how to debug this, journalctl doesn’t show anything in particular related to it.
The machine is fully updated. The only extras I installed related to the system/drivers, as far as I remember, were the nvidia drivers, and virtualbox akmod. As you may guess, secure boot is off.
I forgot to mention, this isn’t an issue in Win10. I have dual boot and I don’t have this in it, and looking at my laptop’s page, there’s no drivers for the touchpad, nor even for win10. On windows, under pc components, it says it’s a “HID-compliant touch pad”.
Digging around, I found a guy suggesting to install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, but given there’s no such package on Fedora, I’ve installed xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy. Now I’ll see if this does the trick or not. It happens at random, and in short intervals, so I can’t tell right away. The packages xorg-x11-drv-libinput and xorg-x11-drv-evdev were already installed by the way.
So this seems to be the fix, installing xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-legacy. At least for the entire day today I didn’t had that bug.
With that said, the default config is rather bad. It’s functional, granted, but not ideal, so here’s my config:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf