Touchpad not working. Easynote TE. Ubuntu 12.04

[Nidding]

Hey you all.
After a recent update my laptop blavked out and refused to boot. Therefore I did a clean install, which has been causing me problems ever since. The most recent version that I can get near to installing and get to work is 12.04. Here, however the touchpad doesn't work. It didn't either on my previous installation, but back then I got it to work. I've been trying to find the fix, but can't find anything that works.
I can get the pointer to move, but it's extremely laggy, and totally unusable.

Can anyone help with a fix?

[varunendra]

I can get the pointer to move, but it's extremely laggy, and totally unusable.

"I can get.." - means you have to do something to make it move or is it movable by default, just laggy?

Please show us the output of -

xinput

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"I can get.." - means you have to do something to make it move or is it movable by default, just laggy?

Please show us the output of -

xinput

Hey.
Thanks for answering
By that I mean that I have to touch the touchpad to make it move Sorry for the unclarity.

xinput gives

jonas@nidlap:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad                	id=13	[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)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ HD WebCam                               	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Acer WMI hotkeys                        	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]

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From looking through other threads (where you were actually the one to come up with the solution) I tried

echo "blacklist acer_wmi" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

As well as

xinput --float "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
xinput --reattach "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" "Virtual core pointer"

None of them with any luck.

[varunendra]

By that I mean that I have to touch the touchpad to make it move Sorry for the unclarity.

What?? Really?? Sooo.. outdated..
Mine here moves by my brain-waves !

Anyway, here's one more common fix, although this one, as well as the ones you tried are all supposed to fix a 'totally dead' touchpad, while yours is just laggy.

Please also try -

sudo modprobe -rv psmouse
sudo modprobe -v psmouse

If that doesn't help, next -

sudo modprobe -rv psmouse
sudo modprobe -v psmouse proto=imps

If still no improvement, please post the outputs of -

synclient
dmesg | grep -i touchpad
lsmod

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What?? Really?? Sooo.. outdated..
Mine here moves by my brain-waves !

Whoa! Gotta go out and get me one of them soon!

If that doesn't help, next -

sudo modprobe -rv psmouse
sudo modprobe -v psmouse proto=imps

This works for me
The only thing is that it stops after reboot.

[varunendra]

This works for me
The only thing is that it stops after reboot.

To make it permanent, create a conf file -

echo "options psmouse proto=imps" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf

It will be automatically loaded with the "proto=imps" parameter since next boot.

Those whom it works for, often state that it breaks some functionality of the touchpad, like two finger scroll and maybe more.

But why should I tell you that if you are happy with it? No I won't let you know, so that you easily mark the thread as [SOLVED].

[Nidding]

Yeah, well. Now at least I can point and click. It would be nice to have those features working, but then again, I'd way rather have a mouse that can do the most basic stuff than no mouse at all

Thanks a lot for the help

[varunendra]

Anytime !