On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Xianwen Chen <xianwen.chen@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi Archers, > > I'm runnig Arch X64 on a Dell Latitude E5410. The touchpad is not > recognized as > > "xinput list" only shows following: > > ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] > ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer > (2)] > ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [slave pointer > (2)] > ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] > ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2M id=10 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard > (3)] > ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard > (3)] > > xf86-input-synaptics and xf86-input-evdev are installed on the system. > > Does someone have an idea on how to fix the problem? ;) > > Xianwen > > > My touchpad wasn't recognized either after restarting a few days ago, but restarting again fixed it for whatever reason. I guess the module can fail to load sometimes.