I got a new laptop for Christmas, and it's full of new hardware, so my only option was to install ubuntu 19.10, but among the bugs I've been facing, my touchpad seems to 'freeze up' whenever I have to wake my computer up from sleep, but I still can't figure out how to restart my mouse pad driver, I followed several different sets of instructions from Is there a way to "restart" the touchpad driver? but to no avail
I'm sure the sudo modprobe -r drivername && sudo modprobe drivername
would work, but I can't seem to find the driver for my touchpad.
using xinput --list
returns
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech Wireless Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MSFT0002:01 04F3:304B Touchpad 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)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Ideapad extra buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
using xinput disable 12 && xinput enable 12
yields no help.
using grep -iA2 touchpad /proc/bus/input/devices
yields:
N: Name="MSFT0002:01 04F3:304B Touchpad"
P: Phys=i2c-MSFT0002:01
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-1/i2c-MSFT0002:01/0018:04F3:304B.0001/input/input23
which indicates that designware
is the driver? But using ls $(find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -type d -name mouse)
doesn't show any such driver name:
appletouch.ko bcm5974.ko cyapatp.ko elan_i2c.ko gpio_mouse.ko psmouse.ko sermouse.ko synaptics_i2c.ko synaptics_usb.ko vsxxxaa.ko
I've gone through and systematically restarted each one and none of them seem to be helping, is there somewhere else that a mouse driver would be located that I can look in?
The laptop model I'm using is:
Lenovo IdeaPad S340
Edit
I found a different question from a different forum https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/423797/how-do-i-disable-i2c-designware-support-when-its-not-built-as-a-module that seems to address a similar issue concerning the built-in designware driver, how do I restart the designware driver, if as the link says, "It's not built as a module"?