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My touchpad is detected as a mouse so no scrolling is possible.

  • laptop Asus G550JK, Xubuntu 14.04.2
  • dkms installed
  • xinput gives me "PS/2 Generic Mouse" where Elantech Touchpad should be
  • my touchpad seems to be ETD0105

  • already tried this

    sudo apt-get --purge autoremove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics && sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

  • and this

    sudo apt-get install --install-recommends xserver-xorg

  • and this

    sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

  • and tried to reconfigure driver according to this

    https://hardc0l2e.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/fix-for-elantech-touchpad-on-ubuntu-14-04/

  • dkms status gives me

    focaltech, 1.5~trusty1: added psmouse, elantech-x551c, 3.19.0-30-generic, x86_64: installed vboxhost, 4.3.30, 3.19.0-30-generic, x86_64: installed

Any help would be truly appreciated :-) Thank you.

Sebastian
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  • Are you sure it is Elantech? What does dmesg | grep pnp show? – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 18:02
  • @Pilot6 It shows this: [ 0.244800] pnp: PnP ACPI init [ 0.245070] pnp 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active) [ 0.245193] pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ETD0105 SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f03 PNP0f13 PNP0f12 (active) [ 0.245218] pnp 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ATK3001 PNP030b (active) [ 0.245708] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices

    I'm absolutely sure that there was Elantech Touchpad before I updated couple of things (graphical driver, boot settings, apt-get autoremove etc.).

     – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 18:07
  • It is an really an Elantech – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 18:07
  • What is the kernel version uname -r? – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 18:08
  • 3.19.0-30-generic – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 18:09
  • It should work out of the box on that kernel. That is weird – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 18:14
  • @PIlot6 Yeah, that's what I say :-) – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 18:16
  • Please add output of dkms status TO YOUR QUESTION. Please do not add information to comments. It is unreadable here. – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 18:18

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I finally found the right solution that @jandurek pointed out here.

sudo rmmod psmouse
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko

I added this to a startup script to enable two-finger scrolling right after ubuntu starts.

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Sebastian
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The problem is very clear. You installed a wrong Focaltech touchpad driver.

And it is installed from my PPA. Remove it this way:

sudo apt-get purge focaltech-dkms
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms

Then reboot.

The touchpad should work without any driver.

So also remove the Elantech one too by:

sudo dkms remove psmouse/elantech-x551c --all

If the touchpad does not work, then re-install the Elantech driver. I am not 100% sure that this specific model works on kernel 3.19.

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  • I removed the focaltech driver, rebooted (didn't work), then removed elantech driver and rebooted and still it's not working.

    Installed driver with

    sudo dkms install psmouse/elantech-x551c

    And it's still not working. Damn it.

     – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 20:02
  • So install the elantech driver again. – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 20:03
  • Should I use another install command, Pilot? – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 20:07
  • Well, you installed that psmouse-elantech-x551c.tar.gz. So try it again. But I am not quite sure that it is good for your model. – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 20:09
  • No luck. I even tried what I found here (exactly my laptop): http://snakelab.cc/2015/01/09/running_ubuntu_on_asus_n550jk.html – Sebastian Oct 29 '15 at 20:23
  • Asus laptops can have various types of touchpads on same models. You need to find a solution addressing your specific one ETD0105. – Pilot6 Oct 29 '15 at 20:25