Most of the time, the way to fix a touchpad not working in Linux is to simply install or update drivers. That said, there are a few other options you may need to check. Start by going into Settings and selecting “Mouse & Touchpad.”. Depending on the distro, you might not see a separate Touchpad option, which is the case with mine.Laptop touchpad not working. Share. Watch on. If Synaptics or other TouchPad gestures are not working after Sleep, BIOS Update, Connecting Mouse or Windows or Drive Update follow these tips. Open the on-screen touchpad. Use the on-screen touchpad to control the mouse pointer with your touchscreen. Press and hold (or right-click) the taskbar, and then select Taskbar settings. Under Taskbar corner icons, set Virtual touchpad to On. Select the touchpad button on the taskbar. My laptop model is Acer Aspire 3 A315-51-37AV. My touchpad is working partially. It is responding to touch but multi finger gestures or two finger tap to right click is not working. I can't find driver for touchpad in the device manager. Tried installing driver from acer driver download page but after installing and restarting PC it doesn't
I looked up my laptop on acer.com, downloaded the touchpad driver listed, and installed it. The setup was completed and the status was listed as "ready to use". I rebooted, but my touchpad still didn't work. Looking further, I noticed that inside the "Touchpad_Synaptics_19.0.7.34_W10x64_A" folder there was a file called "SynRMIHID.sys" BIOS Menu:
In the "Install From Disk" window that appears, click the "Browse" button. Navigate to the temporary folder where you extracted the Synaptics or ELAN Precision Touchpad drivers. Select the "Autorun.inf" file in that folder, and then click the "Open" button. Click "OK" afterwards. a99cRp.