After an update touch pad stopped working in my arch machine . The arch wiki has something in it to resolve this.
The cause for the issue was:
the file 50-synaptics.conf was not there in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ .
And the workaround is:
so if your touch pad is not working, this also can be a reason for that , to solve this specific issue copy the 50-synaptics.conf from /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and paste in etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/. And a reboot…