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After using my computer for a while, the touch pad starts to become slow. It almost becomes smooth when moving slowly.

Please tell me what resources you all would need to help me diagnose this issue.

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  • Update the driver if you can. That is what I do. Run Dell hardware diagnostics also.
    – anon
    Commented Aug 23, 2022 at 22:38
  • @John I really can't figure out how to update the driver while in arch linux--or even what updates to install.
    – Feelix343
    Commented Aug 23, 2022 at 23:14

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If you haven't done it already, I believe you can run a sudo pacman -Suy to update the entire system via the arch linux package manager, which includes drivers installed via pacman (which I think are most drivers needed for daily usage). This will update everything though, so make sure you are ready for that, like doing any necessary backups etc. If you installed the touchpad driver outside of pacman, I think you need to download and install the update yourself, following instructions that should hopefully be listed where you downloaded the driver.

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  • Definitely had to update the drivers; I still haven't found a solution, but this page was a good start gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/…; toupad drivers are not managed under pacman
    – Feelix343
    Commented Oct 10, 2022 at 16:22

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