Acer Aspire One 725 Elantech Touchpad not working

[green0eggs]

Hello All.

I had the same problem. I found Nabarlek's solution worked, but I can't scroll. Furthermore, the 'Mouse and Touchpad' settings: there is no longer a touchpad tab (see attached). Am I missing something?

1. Open the Terminal
2. cd /etc/modprobe.d/
3. gksudo gedit options.conf
4. In the text editor, type: options psmouse proto=imps
5. Save the file and close it.
6. sudo modprobe -r psmouse
7. sudo modprobe psmouse

Any further help'd be appreciated! Cheers.

[sasukeskapa]

I also used this

(Originally Posted by NihilisticNabarlek
Open the Terminal
cd /etc/modprobe.d/
gksudo gedit options.conf
In the text editor, type: options psmouse proto=imps
Save the file and close it.
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse)

method, but it says this:

sasukeskapa@sasukeskapa-AO725:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe -r psmouse
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/options.comf, it will be ignored in a future release.
sasukeskapa@sasukeskapa-AO725:/etc/modprobe.d$ sudo modprobe psmouse
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/options.comf, it will be ignored in a future release.
sasukeskapa@sasukeskapa-AO725:/etc/modprobe.d$

And after reboot it forgets everything and I have to do it again.
Isn't there a permanent solution??? Also what could be the problem here???
(I'm using a Kubuntu 12.04)
(Also the scrolling doesn't working.)

After a next reboot now it works
Only the scrolling left to repair

[Chuck Glenn]

Ok, turns out this solution from the link above works, though no scrolling:

This is a way to create a file that fixed my Aspire One, so I'm sharing it:

1. Open the Terminal
2. cd /etc/modprobe.d/
3. gksudo gedit options.conf
4. In the text editor, type: options psmouse proto=imps
5. Save the file and close it.
6. sudo modprobe -r psmouse
7. sudo modprobe psmouse

This worked, but the notification are is goofy. You can fn-F7 to togle off and on, but the notification icon always shows the "off" graphic. So for those of you who tried the above and think it doesn't work after rebooting, try fn-F7 even if it keeps showing you the "turned off" graphic.

[NihilisticNabarlek]

FIXED WITH NO HACKS YEAH!!!!!


Finally got Elantech touchpad working perfectly. Follow the following instructions, reboot and you're golden

ELANTECH TOUCHPAD

In TERMINAL type the following:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then COPY and PASE the following in the file. Save it, reboot and voila it works, multitouch and all!

Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
	MatchProduct "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "synaptics"
	Option "TapButton1" "1"
	Option "TapButton2" "3"
	Option "TapButton3" "2"
	Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "1"
	Option "HorizTwoFingerScroll" "1"
	Option "CoastingSpeed" "10"
	Option "EdgeMotionMinZ" "30"
	Option "EdgeMotionMaxZ" "40"
	Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "100"
	Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "400"
	Option "FingerLow" "9"
	Option "FingerHigh" "12"
	Option "EmulateMidButtonTime" "0"
	Option "ClickPad" "True"
	Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
EndSection

[sandyd]

You are amazing.

Totally.

Touchpad fully works on my gathering-dust acer.

Thanks!

[md2406]

I have Acer Aspire 725 netbook and I have edit xorg.conf and added the section but still touchpad is not working. Am I missing something?

[MADinMelbourne]

NEC E6300 running ubuntu 12.04.. touchpad was working fine until the last update, I have run dconfig-editor, there's nothing in the box to click under 'org'. Followed instruction from Narbalek and nothing changed. No tab is showing for touchpad in systems.

Not a coder, will follow instructions and keen to learn if anyone is willing to step me thru. Thanks.

[jofa87]

hi,

i followed the instructions from chuck glenn, same problem. it works - no scrolling.No tab is showing for touchpad in systems.

at nihilistic nabarlek: I use linux mint 13: there is no xorg.conf, but xorg.conf.failsafe. to change this file isn´t successful.

can you help me? thanks

[norbs]

I have reported this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...0/+bug/1058346

Please add more details to the report.

[peteremmm]

I have an Acer 725 - updated my ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 and it works even with multitouch.