Comment 18 for bug 1715479

(In reply to Matt Jamison from comment #7)
> I pulled the latest libinput out of rawhide. I don't see 1.7.2 as you
> mentioned. am I missing something?

should definitely be there, maybe some mirror issue?
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=888012

> # rpm -e libevdev xorg-x11-drv-evdev
> error: Failed dependencies:
> libevdev.so.2()(64bit) is needed by (installed) libinput-1.7.1-4.fc27.x86_64
> libevdev.so.2(LIBEVDEV_1)(64bit) is needed by (installed)
> libinput-1.7.1-4.fc27.x86_64

libevdev is a low-level library that libinput uses as well, if anything only
remove xorg-x11-drv-evdev. but witout any config snippet you should be able
to just leave it there, libinput will override it anyway.

> Problem exists in both wayland and X11.

in the X session: do xinput watch-props "touchpad device name" and toggle the touchpad off setting in gnome, does anything change?