Hi, this is my first post here, thanks for reading!

The Situation:
I've recently installed Debian 10 with KDE Plasma using a USB Mouse during the process.
My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite E55, currently Dual Booting Debian/Windows7.

Unfortunately my Elantech Touchpad is not working on Debian.
And I haven't been able to solve it. The touchpad only works properly on Windows.

What have I done so far?

1. Tried unplugging USB Mouse and pressing touchpad enable/disable key combinations on my keyboard.
2. Modified Touchpad Settings unchecking both options that could disable it in case of usb mouse or keyboard use.
3. Searched for my touchpad using xinput list and got this:
   
   

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   I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000e Version=0000
N: Name="ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event6
B: PROP=5
B: EV=b
B: KEY=e420 10000 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=661800011000003

   
   
4. Installed the following driver packages hoping it would help, but nothing seemed to change: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics | xserver-xorg-input-libinput | xserver-xorg-input-evdev | xserver-xorg-input-mouse

I'm not sure if this is a KDE Plasma issue or related directly to the Linux kernel, as I'm just beginning to use and understand this OS.

Perhaps I should try updating my Linux Kernel (currently 4.9.0-12-amd64)?

Thanks for any advice, if you point me in the right direction I can continue researching and learning along the way!

Cheers
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Definitely nothing to do with Plasma.
Do try your laptop's fn hotkey for the touchpad, to see if toggling it tuns it on, if you have not already tried that.
Any fixes likely will be Debian specific I think. The elan touchpads are well supported as far as I can tell, and for some time now, though Debian is its own animal.

Have you tried a live session of a distro with a (much) more recent kernel and driver set?

claydoh wrote:Have you tried a live session of a distro with a (much) more recent kernel and driver set?

Haven't tried that, sounds good.
I'd appreciate any suggestions on which distro should I try.

Thanks!