ELANTech touchpad working only sporadically with Debian 12

[finalgirlfall]

relevant info:

• my laptop is a HP Pavilion from 2020(? i think), model number hp laptop 15 dy-2073dx (according to the stuff on the underside LOL) (is that relevant? i don't know)
• my linux distro is Debian 12
• i have been using linux since November 3, so i do not often know what i'm doing yet
• the touchpad does show up when i run

  cat /proc/bus/input/devices

  , but i don't see an driver that seems like it's for the ELANTech touchpad (emphasis intentional) when i run

  xinput list

• i will attach the relevant sections of both inputs below:

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

xinput list

please let me know if you need any other information!!

 

[finalgirlfall]

also i am aware that this could be a ~simple hardware issue, but i want to try and see if it's a driver issue first.

 

[osprey]

It appears the laptop is running xwayland, rather than X, which I'm not familiar with yet. However, if it was in X, then there would be a few things to try, in particular, by having a look at https://wiki.debian.org/LibinputTouchpad, and then the man page for libinput where there are a number of options available to adjust the configuration, in particular the Option "AccelSpeed" <...>, variable which can have some affect on this sort of issue in my experience.

 

[finalgirlfall]

It appears the laptop is running xwayland, rather than X, which I'm not familiar with yet. However, if it was in X, then there would be a few things to try, in particular, by having a look at https://wiki.debian.org/LibinputTouchpad, and then the man page for libinput where there are a number of options available to adjust the configuration, in particular the Option "AccelSpeed" <...>, variable which can have some affect on this sort of issue in my experience.

i am trying to figure out how to get past just "installing libinput-tools" LOL. will report back if my friend who iirc uses Arch and Pop OS is able to help me get past that step.