On my Dell Inspiron 15R laptop, lately I've noticed that sometimes my touchpad stops responding and I have to restart to fix this. All I can do is press the power button and press Enter which shuts down, but if I press Tab while the shut down dialog is open, I can't escape out of it and pressing the power button again resets the countdown to auto shut down. Then I have to hold down the power button to force it off. I'm still able to open the menu using the Windows key and close Firefox using Ctrl+Q.
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- R1743:109243a658a7: Update libinput to 1.9.0
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Could you please try again after the next sync ?
The following update might fix your problem : 109243a658a7
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This problem is most likely fixed since I can once again press the battery and touchpad buttons and they work fine, thanks!
I'll keep this open and comment again if it happens again.
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This happened to me again yesterday, I had to force shut down with the power button. Maybe it's just my old laptop malfunctioning. Sometimes the slightest movement can cause it to die suddenly!
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This just happened to me now and I fixed it somehow by moving my right and left index fingers at the same time randomly around the touchpad ! Maybe the pointer freezes because I touched the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously in a specific way which caused it to freeze until that's done again to unfreeze it.
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This has happened to me a few times before too and I also assumed it was because of my old laptop, maybe not though...
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You may wish to check if your machine is using Nvidia graphics. Type inxi -G into a terminal window.
If yes, you would want to install nvidia-glx-driver-current if your running the current kernel, or nvidia-glx-driver if your running the lts kernel. You can check your running kernel by typing uname -r into a terminal window.
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From the comments here, this happened to me last on 31st October 2017 but I remember it happened to me recently in the last month where I was sitting in a study area and wondering if I should ask to borrow someone's mouse to move the pointer. In the end I just forced shut down.
I'll close this issue, but if it happens again, I'll leave a comment here.
If it happens to anyone else, please leave a comment or reopen this task.
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This happened to me again a few minutes ago. I was scrolling on Facebook and the pointer froze. Right and left clicking still worked, but could not move using the touchpad. I was not plugged into the power outlet, which may have something to do with it.
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I've bought a new laptop, done a fresh install of Solus 3 Mate, and I have not experienced this issue.
But it may still be affecting @waddon1 and others.
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Then I'm going to mark this as invalid for now unless someone else reports the issue is still around.