SF314-512 Touchpad No Longer working on Fedora 41 and Ubuntu 24.10, Is it Kernel or Hardware issue?
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My Acer laptop is running Fedora 41 stable with the 6.12.8 Linux kernel. I recently noticed last night that I am no longer able to use my touchpad. I tried loading other live environments, such as Ubuntu 24.10 and am unable to use the touchpad there as well. Is this issue a Linux issue, a Linux Kernel issue, or a hardware issue? And if so, is it resolvable? Any help on resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated!
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Hi, try this:
1.Press F2 to enter in BIOS
2.Main screen, press Ctrl+S to show the hidden options.
3.Set touchpad as Basic (NOT ADVANCED) or PS/2 not 12C HID.
4.Press F10 to save changes.1 -
Likely a kernel issue, where the kernel doesn't have needed drivers compiled in to fully support all touchpad modes. Your system is old enough now though that I would have expected it to baked in to the latest releases.
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I just remembered to check back here a few days ago and implemented this solution. I didn't notice any changes at first and did several restarts while using Linux Mint. However, I did switch to Pop OS on their alpha version of Cosmic and suddenly found last night that the touchpad worked again! Thank you very much for your help!
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It might have been. I have the ability to use my touchpad again after switching from Linux Mint 22.1 to the alpha build of Pop OS w/ Cosmic. I implemented the solution I responded to from above, and it seems to have worked. However, it didn't take effect until after I switched linux distro. In either case, thank you for your help!
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