[ubuntu] Touchpad not working (Jaunty)

[magicke]

hmm...that didnt work for me. now the touchpad tab in the mouse config applet is gone and i dont know how to get it back

[shl_junk]

Thanks everyone. I was able to make this work last night. I woke up, booted up the laptop again and the touchpad doesn't move the cursor again.

So does that mean I will have to do this every time? If so, I better copy and paste the instructions and put it on the desktop.

[Matataki]

If you do the

and add: options psmouse proto=imps
to: gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

step in the posted solution it'll initialise on every bootup.

[rharagon]

You say you fixed it with the help of a friend. Could you explain? I'm having the same problem - getting the same FATAL etc. message. What did you do to fix it?

[shl_junk]

I haven't tried Mataki's latest comment yet. When I said I fixed it with a friend's help, I found out I wasn't typing "sudo" in front of what Mataki posted. Once I figured that out, from the terminal, you would type:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse

Hit ENTER

Then, it will ask for your password. You type it in and hit ENTER.

Then you type:

sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

Hit ENTER

At this point, I moved my cursor and it moved.

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If Mataki is still reading this thread and if he's patient, can you please go through it step by step with the rest of your directions? I'm really new with Ubuntu and Linux.

[TheMusicGuy]

Thank you, Matataki!

I was having the same issue as everyone else with my toucpad being reported as "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" by `xinput list` and not working, except for the buttons. Then I tried the following commands, adapted from Matataki's bug report:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

When I tried doing this from an X terminal emulator it made the X server freeze and I was unable to use ANY mouse or keyboard. But then I restarted my system and tried the commands again from the (non-X) tty terminal, and now the touchpad works just fine. Adding the option to /etc/modprobe.d/options worked as intended also, but I had to actually create the "options" file first.

Edit:

I've created a blog entry to summarize this issue and its solution at the following url: http://tmg-vs-tech.blogspot.com/2009...touchpads.html

[shiggs]

Originally Posted by TheMusicGuy Thank you, Matataki! I was having the same issue as everyone else with my toucpad being reported as "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" by `xinput list` and not working, except for the buttons. Then I tried the following commands, adapted from Matataki's bug report: sudo modprobe -r psmouse sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps When I tried doing this from an X terminal emulator it made the X server freeze and I was unable to use ANY mouse or keyboard. But then I restarted my system and tried the commands again from the (non-X) tty terminal, and now the touchpad works just fine. Adding the option to /etc/modprobe.d/options worked as intended also, but I had to actually create the "options" file first. Edit: I've created a blog entry to summarize this issue and its solution at the following url: http://tmg-vs-tech.blogspot.com/2009...touchpads.html

this worked for me, but i have a synaptics touchpad, "xinput list" added the following

"ImPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"	id=6	[XExtensionPointer]
	Num_buttons is 32
	Num_axes is 2
	Mode is Relative
	Motion_buffer is 256
	Axis 0 :
		Min_value is -1
		Max_value is -1
		Resolution is 1
	Axis 1 :
		Min_value is -1
		Max_value is -1
		Resolution is 1

...which was lacking prior, not sure if it will persist on reboot. Will report back if not.

[TheMusicGuy]

It will not persist until you put the options into /etc/modprobe.d. To do that, run this line:

sudo echo "modprobe psmouse proto=imps" >> /etc/modprobe.d/touchpadfix.conf

Btw, my xinput list gives the following:

"ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"    id=5    [XExtensionPointer]
        Num_buttons is 32
        Num_axes is 2
        Mode is Relative
        Motion_buffer is 256
        Axis 0 :
                Min_value is -1
                Max_value is -1
                Resolution is 1
        Axis 1 :
                Min_value is -1
                Max_value is -1
                Resolution is 1

Although I sometimes have a wheel mouse attached, I didn't when I ran xinput list. Odd, but no harm done.

[clandestino]

Hello everybody

I have a eeepc 901 and I've been struggling with the elantech touchpad since I've upgraded to jaunty. I remember having some issues even with 8.10...
After the jaunty installation the touchpad worked fine, well with a little slow response but it worked. Then, without installing anything special, the touchpad stopped working from time to time: I mean sometimes I started the laptop and I had no touchpad. It was a very random behavior, but after a while it went away completely and I started working with a small usb mouse.
Today I've upgraded to the array.org kernel (2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc) and decided to fix the touchpad issue. Well I found your post and tried Matataki's solution.
Here is what I get:

xinput list

"Virtual core pointer" id=0 [XPointer]
Num_buttons is 32
Num_axes is 2
Mode is Relative
Motion_buffer is 256
Axis 0 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 0
Axis 1 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 0
"Virtual core keyboard" id=1 [XKeyboard]
Num_keys is 248
Min_keycode is 8
Max_keycode is 255
"Synaptics Touchpad" id=2 [XExtensionPointer]
Num_buttons is 12
Num_axes is 2
Mode is Relative
Motion_buffer is 256
Axis 0 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 0
Axis 1 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 0
"Asus EeePC extra buttons" id=3 [XExtensionKeyboard]
Num_keys is 248
Min_keycode is 8
Max_keycode is 255
"AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" id=4 [XExtensionKeyboard]
Num_keys is 248
Min_keycode is 8
Max_keycode is 255
"Video Bus" id=5 [XExtensionKeyboard]
Num_keys is 248
Min_keycode is 8
Max_keycode is 255
"USB Mouse" id=6 [XExtensionPointer]
Num_buttons is 32
Num_axes is 2
Mode is Relative
Motion_buffer is 256
Axis 0 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 1
Axis 1 :
Min_value is -1
Max_value is -1
Resolution is 1

sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

FATAL: Error inserting psmouse (/lib/modules/2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

here is what dmesg gives:

[ 1451.237133] psmouse: Unknown parameter `elantech'

Strange enough I have no elantech.c file on my system and the
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc/include/config/mouse/ps2/elantech.h file is empty

I hope somebody has an idea about what's going on ...

Thanks a lot

[pato101]

I've experimented same issue: touchpad stopped working since I upgraded to array.org kernel (which boots quite faster, btw), in my eee901. I had 8.10 + array.org and I upgraded to 9.04 and then re-enabled array.org repos and installed array.org kernel.

I've seen that in /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc there is a line which says

options psmouse elantech=1

commenting it just does the trick for me! (after reboot). I'm not sure if I'm using all the touchpad features, but does the two-finger wheel effect and I don't have to popup touchpad properties window in order to enable that any more.