Fresh install on Lenovo Slim 9i not detecting trackpad in hyprland | Omacom | Page 1

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 3:48 AM

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As the title reads I cannot get omarchy/hyprland to find my touchpad. Ironically enough the touchscreen works fine

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Confusingly before a reboot I was able to get all devices to list but now it just says my instance signature isn't set

empty kraken Nov 17, 2025, 3:58 AM

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don't do sudo

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just normal hyprctl devices will work

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:00 AM

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Oops you're right

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For reference I did just swap off of ubuntu (with lubuntu installed) and that worked just fine with the touchpad

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:10 AM

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hi @teal trail . have you tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenovo_Yoga_Slim_9_(Intel) instructions in here?

Lenovo Yoga Slim 9 (Intel)

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i dont know if this is exactly the same model, so be careful

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:11 AM

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I was sadly unable to find this but looks like a good lead! Thanks ❤️

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:19 AM

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I think an exact model number would be helpful in this case - looking up Lenovo Slim 9i is mostly people reporting that the laptop's trackpad is all good

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also the output of sudo libinput list-devices - not sure exactly of the command but i can find it tomorrow if you cant get it

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but i think thats it

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:23 AM

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I had already checked that one and same issue of the trackpad just not listing

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:24 AM

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is it possibly listed as a mouse instead?

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:25 AM

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Nope, no mice or touchpads, etc are listed other than the touchscreen

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So same list of devices shrugg

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:27 AM

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that confirms the issue is at a lower level than hyprland / libinput

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at least

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:27 AM

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For sanity I did double check the bios to make sure the touchpad wasn't disabled somehow either

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:28 AM

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thats good

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try dmesg

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there might be some important messages from the kernel in there

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dmesg | less will make it easier to scroll up/down and search if you prefer

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look for stuff like 'i2c' 'hid' 'elan' 'synaptics' 'touchpad'

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teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:30 AM

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Looks like this is probably it

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:31 AM

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so its failing to bind to the kernel which is pretty common on new laptops

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:32 AM

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Definitely a first for me 😆

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:33 AM

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you can try a different kernel, its easy on arch. i heard reports that its good on kernel version 5.8, though maybe try linux-lts first

plus you have system snapshots on omarchy, so if anything goes wrong, roll that bitch back

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i think its just sudo pacman -S linux-lts or whichever kernel version you want to try

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alternatively, you can try blacklisting the driver on the bootloader (limine)

add i2c_hid_acpi.blacklist=1 to the end of CMDLINE= in limine.conf then reboot

it'll force linux to use a different driver like hid-multitouch

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:38 AM

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Just installing and booting from linux lts worked!

That does mean I am on the latest now so fingers crossed it dosn't blow everything else up

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:38 AM

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woohoo!!

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i really didnt think that would work, good stuff

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:39 AM

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I am surprised too

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:39 AM

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does your touchscreen still work?

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:39 AM

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But it's a completely fresh install with like 2 things done so if it blew up it blew up

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Yup! Touchscreen too

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:39 AM

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awesome

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:39 AM

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But tbf I almost never actually use a touchscreen, I forgot it even had one

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Thanks for the help I really appreciate it
I'll probably have to update my bootloader to make sure to use lts by default but it should be easy

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 4:42 AM

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make sure to install linux-lts-headers first!!

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you can actually add linux-lts as a separate entry on the bootloader if you want

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instead of fucking with the main one that omarchy sets up

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just copy that block, paste it, rename it and point it at the correct version

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 4:59 AM

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Hmm I just set it to use the default entry to 3 instead of 2 which highlights the right kernel but of course doesn’t use it if I let it automatically select

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So as long as I press enter it works

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 5:06 AM

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do you mean it's highlighting the right one (linux-lts) but its defaulting to the default omarchy one if you dont hit enter?

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 5:28 AM

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devout ivy do you mean it's highlighting the right one (linux-lts) but its defaulting to th...

Yes, more testing and it just seems to be up to chance and sometimes the touchpad and the kernel aren’t happy together but it at least works like 95% of the time so good enough for me

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 5:29 AM

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might be worth checking out dmesg again on a boot that doesnt work

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and libinput

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 5:52 AM

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Next time it gives me trouble I'll definitely check it out

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:09 AM

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Welp, I’m tired and it’s late and I just nuked my install by moving a bin folder to my home folder 😔

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Didn’t think that one out

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:10 AM

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lollll

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you definitely havent nuked it, you can move it back by pointing to the mv program directly if its no longer accessible

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:13 AM

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More of my system is unresponsive and I just get a black screen after booting in, really fudged this one

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:13 AM

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time to restore!

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you can do it via cmd or the boot menu

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:14 AM

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Yup! I’m hoping I can just restore the bin folder to back to not being destroyed

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:14 AM

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(but maybe get some sleep first)

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:14 AM

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Pft what’s a bit more destruction at this point

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:15 AM

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i once overwrote my entire path variable because i forgot to include ":$PATH" at the end of the string in my .bashrc

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which means i couldnt use any commands

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it was awesome

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:16 AM

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Linux wouldn’t nearly be as fun if you wouldn’t mess it up so easily

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:16 AM

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linux doesnt have viruses because YOU ARE the virus. you cause utter destruction in your wake

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:16 AM

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Weird thing is, my install boots fine if I boot the restore which has like everything I added. My actual install is dead

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Does the restore just do system files 🤔

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:21 AM

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they only store the diffs basically

btrfs (the filesystem of omarchy) does something called copy-on-write, which does exactly as it sounds. when you write something to the disk, it gets copied into a subvolume.

so when you take a new snapshot, it contains a reference to the copied info, as well as system metadata and the directory structure and stuff

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so when you 'rollback', you boot into that subvolume and then make it the default

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so boot into it, then run omarchy-snapshot restore to make it permanent

teal trail Nov 17, 2025, 7:24 AM

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I see

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Fun news is I had to reinstall Linux lts and it doesn’t fix the touchpad anymore so I think this is a tomorrow problem, thanks for the laughs and all the help 😆

devout ivy Nov 17, 2025, 7:37 AM

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did you reinstall the headers too?

#Fresh install on Lenovo Slim 9i not detecting trackpad in hyprland