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I have a Laptop with dual boot Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04. My computer is an ASUS X552L. My problem is that my touchpad is crazy. I can't use it for anything because it doesn't click or move. I only can work with external mouse and every time I start the session have to enter the command:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse

Because if don't do that the mouse starts to move to the left all by itself.

xinput output:

 Virtual core pointer                       id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
|   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
|   ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE                         id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
| Virtual core keyboard                     id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard               id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=6    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                                 id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=8    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB Camera                                id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                          id=11   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Raw Set 2 keyboard

uname -r output:

3.16.0-45-generic

dmesg | grep pnp output:

[    0.252003] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[    0.252450] pnp 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active)
[    0.252688] pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs FLT0101 SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f03 PNP0f13 PNP0f12 (active)
[    0.252732] pnp 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ATK3001 PNP030b (active)
[    0.253885] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices

Can anyone help me to fix it?

fosslinux
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David
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You have a Focaltech touchpad. You can fix it this way. Run in terminal:

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-vivid

reboot.

Then run

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

But it looks like you tried to install a wrong driver. That's why your touchpad is not detected at all.

UPDATE: These touchpads are now supported by the 4.2 kernels. The kernel can be installed by

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-wily

The Focaltech driver from the PPA should be removed.

Pilot6
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