I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop running Arch Linux, and recently, after an update, the Synaptics touchpad stopped working.
The touchpad shows up in dmesg as:
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input7
I was using a USB mouse until I found time to get the touchpad working again. Here’s what I had to do…
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