[Solved] Touchpad and Touchscreen not working

[Usaya]

Hello y'all,

I recently installed Debian 12 on my Laptop. So far, most things work fine but two. After wandering through countless discussions and forums, I must admit that I am now at my wits end.

My specs are:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.0-31-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-1035G4 CPU @ 1.10GHz
Memory: 7.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Plus Graphics
Manufacturer: Acer
Product Name: Spin SP314-54N
System Version: V1.13

It is a Notebook, so I have a Touchscreen and a corresponding Pen.

I am currently trying to get my touchpad to work. I've managed for it to be shown in my Settings (first it was nit detected at all) but I didn't get any further.

In my Settings, the Laptop registers a Touchpad after I copied the file "40-libinput.conf" from usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to etc/X11/xorg.conf.d.

I then stumbled across this forum post: https://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad but either I do not understand it or it did not work.

Using the first command, I get: N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
However, in my etc/X11/xorg.conf.d I cannot find a synaptics.conf file.

If you need anything else, I am glad to provide you with more information.

As far as I understood the forums, Touchscreen support does not come natively, is currently worked on and most of the time you have to try workarounds. Is that correct?

Thank you in advance!

[kalle123]

In cases like that I use to try it with different distros (Ventoy stick with Mint, MX ....) and if you are lucky, it works out of the box.

Then there is the chance (inxi) to look for hardware and driver.

Welcome to the forum

[arzgi]

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arto@dell:~$ aptitude search synaptics
v   xorg-driver-synaptics        -                                      
p   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org s
p   xserver-xorg-input-synaptics - Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org s
arto@dell:~$ 

Of toucschreens I have no other experience than when I was studying some decades ago, I just hated to use some HP touch screen, as the screens were full of fingerprints.

[eriefisher]

Touchpad and touchscreen are two very different things with different drivers. The touchscreen should use the Wacom drivers. The touchpad uses the libinput or synaptics driver.

[Usaya]

Thank you for your tip!

In cases like that I use to try it with different distros (Ventoy stick with Mint, MX ....) and if you are lucky, it works out of the box.

Then there is the chance (inxi) to look for hardware and driver.

Welcome to the forum

I've used Ventoy to check different Distros out, Manjaro supports everything I need out-of-the-box.

I guess that solves my problem. Thank you!

[kalle123]

I've used Ventoy to check different Distros out, Manjaro supports everything I need out-of-the-box.

I guess that solves my problem. Thank you!

Good for you, but as I am bound to the *.deb world, would hate to shift the 'Linux world'.

By the way, some days ago there was a thread in the German Debian forum on that topic.

https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=191338

Think, it is possible also with Debian too, but it'll take some efforts

Only had a glance into Arch, but this is also not an easy operation system like Mint or else.