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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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2 Answers2

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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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