Bazzite is not recognising my laptop's touchpad after logging in
I dual boot windows 11 and Bazzite on separate internal drives on my new ASUS TUF A15
Until yesterday, I have had no problems with Bazzite itself
Yesterday, I experienced a couple of bugs on Bazzite - Steam crashing (it was working well previously), as well as having issues syncing my dropbox - which I have figured out
Anyway, I had to manually power off my laptop a couple of times yesterday due to crashes
Anyway: what's happening now is that Bazzite is not recognising my laptop touchpad after logging in
I can move the mouse around on the login screen, but after logging in, it freezes in the exact same position - towards the bottom right corner of the screen
I can use the trackpad mouse just fine in windows, and I can use a USB mouse in Bazzite.
I get the exact same issue when I boot into os tree 0 or 1, and I have rebooted multiple times yesterday and today
Also, I went into my UEFI settings after this happened and ran full diagnostics. everything was working fine - including the trackpad, the RAM, and the NVME drive that bazzite is installed on
A few days ago - when my system was working well, and before I started to play games on it or tried to set up dropbox, I ran From searching elsewhere on this discord, I understand that this command pinned a snapshot of my system in its current state. I don't know how to check whether the system is still in the same state as when I ran that command
edit: it looks like the current version is still pinned
I would also appreciate general advice on creating backups, to make sure i'm taking advantage of the space efficiencies of BTRFS; as this is my first time running linux with BTRFS
though i'm not even sure restoring a backup would solve this problem, since i'm having the same issue in ostree 1
here's the output of
sudo ostree admin pin 0
ujust device-info in case that helps
https://paste.centos.org/view/8ec716277 Replies
You can test if it's something related to your settings by just making a new Linux user. That user will have all the default settings. If the touchpad works in the new user, then you'll need to try and figure out which setting is breaking the touchpad.
Thanks for this suggestion
It is down to user settings. I have a feeling it's dropbox
I'm just about to go out now. I'm open to just manually migrating most of my stuff over to a different user account, not sure about the most efficient way to do that
Migrating the user over would probably be painful. There are files that you can remove to reset most of the settings. Off hand I can't remember where they are stored. a bunch of the settings are in ~/.config/kde...
I use gnome
Same idea but different folders then for the settings
Would be dconf for gnome and i Dolby know a good way to set that back to bazzite defaults since i never have needed to do it (and I don't use it)
I guess I could try copying over the config files from the other user account I created
I might just need to change the username or something
I'd just need to know the relevant locations / file names
Okay, this is really embarrasing, but I found the source of the problem and resolved it
Under settings > mouse & touchpad > touchpad, my touchpad was set to disabled
I enabled it, and now my touchpad is working
I have no idea how this happened though, I did not touch this setting myself, and no one else accessed my machine