Arch Linux

A few days ago, I did my first fresh install of Arch. I am new to Arch, but have been using GNU/Linux for years now.

I have been trying to get my touchpad to work since then. I carefully read the wiki pages about hal, X, and synaptics (among others) and have tried to manually configure it, both with and without hotplugging.

The most I've gotten to work so far is clicking. No movement or tapping whatsoever. Only clicking the buttons, that's it.

I ran 'cat /dev/input/mice' and was very puzzled to notice that there, too, only clicks were registered. No events from stroking or tapping the touchpad at all. I also checked /dev/input/event* and found similar results: stroking never does anything.

It is not a hardware failure, as it still works flawlessly with other distributions and/or LiveCDs. Ironically, it even worked out-of-the-box on Gentoo, no configuration was needed at all.

I do have xf86-input-mouse, xf86-input-synaptics and xf86-input-evdev installed. (I got this question a lot on IRC)

Thinking it would provide me better hardware support I even tried configuring and compiling the kernel myself twice, but noticed no change at all.

This is my first time reporting a bug, and I was unsure what information to include, so feel free to ask for more, and please bear with me, as I am currently using links to file this.

Thanks a lot to whoever may help.