I have just bought an ASUS F555L laptop and obviously no linux driver is available for the touchpad and I cant disable it from the settings. In fact, it is not even in the settings. Any ideas why? or if there is a work-around this problem?
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You type this into your terminal this to see the running devices. If it's not seen there, it's definitely a driver issue. If you're trying to disable the driver, do this :
xinput list
It'll list the running devices. You can disable it by
xinput disable [devicename/ID]
The devicename is something kinda like ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad, but I find disabling it by the device ID easier.
Note: This will be re-enabled after a system restart. It's good if you plan on re-enabling it sometime soon, but not necessarily right now. (I sometimes carry a small book on my computer... I disable the keyboard temporarily since I don't use it, because who wants a tiny book repeatedly smashing the 'k' key?)
Here's some more information on xinput if you have any other questions about how to use it.
The reason why it possibly not show up, or possibly may have an error is most likely that it's possibly not supported by the kernel yet, or some sort of driver error.
There is a similar issue noted here which completely fixed their similar issue. The person on the other thread had specific drivers to fix their touchpad, however.
(To spare you scrolling time, it was fixed in linux-generic-lts-wily package.)
If there's something that I missed, comment and I'll respond as soon as I can.
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