Maybe just anecdotally, but once I had problems with a touchpad that used to get crazy (moving and clicking on its own) which got fixed after I reinstalled windows. Now I suspect it could have been some driver, but at the time I didn't know better than to reinstall everything.
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I thought at some point the issue was exactly that, but in this case, with pop os. I had pop os, reverted to windows 10, tried windows 11, some point had bazzite, but nothing worked at all. At this point I can only say it has to be hardware failure, hence changing the track pad
Just to be clear, you replaced the touchpad with a new one?
Yes exactly. Got it from eBay. I cannot tell for sure is 100% new, but by the status of it, sure looks new to me (it feels new as well when using the trackpad. Clicks are good when it is actually in position)
Is this an older machine that's no longer under any kind of warranty?
No warranty at this point
Pity. If I had this in my hands I'd be keen to try and fix it but yeah, bit hard to know where to start online.
So basically when you use this as a laptop on the table it mostly works now? If so that sounds like you have it mostly sorted.
Does this model have a tablet mode or something? I'm a bit confused by your edit.
What I mean is: usually a laptop the keyboard part stays on the table and the screen is up. Imagine you reverse this: you pit the screen down on the table and the bottom part is now vertical. This way the touchpad seems to work