Comment 159 for bug 1949394

Robert: In my case it certainly is no regression. I still vividly recollect how I installed Fedora 20 with just keyboard (very painful :-)), for lack of a USB mouse around. Afterwards I discovered a temporary fix of always booting Windows to 'activate' the trackpad for subsequent Linux boot(s). So even a USB mouse can be avoided.

Is it possible you too had previously booted in Windows before trying Fedora Live?

My problem is very simple: After a cold boot, trackpad never works on Linux (without of course the patch from attachment 146121). So you can easily find out if your problem is identical to mine, by that simple test.

If kernel community is unable to find a workable solution (after all Mateusz Jonczyk has fixed it), rather than using Windows to 'activate' the trackpad, I'm thinking of a simple user space solution (involving a minimal kernel with that patch combined with some boot loader or some scripting to reboot to the distribution kernel or the highest version of the kernel in the boot loader configuration etc., perhaps with modified init=blah parameter for that minimal kernel or invoking a triple fault within the kernel after it has 'activated' trackpad or some such hackery; I'm not that desperate yet, though). We will see how this plays out in the long run. The idea is that although the patch is simple, I don't want to be patching my kernel all the time. So the above work-around might be a better solution in my case.