ASUS Zenbook Touchpad on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

[Pilot6]

My ppa for 14.04 won't work out of the box at the moment. Please read description of the ppa. Package works only with kernel 3.19 and requires
linux-generic-lts-vivid package. It will be in main repository in a week or two, I guess.

[James_Read-Tannock]

First time posting here, just wanted to thank you Pilot6 for doing such a good job! I'm sure there are a lot of grateful Zenbook owners

[skagedal2]

Thanks a lot, Pilot6! I have an ASUS ZenBook UX303LN and I'm running Ubuntu 15.04, and using this the touchpad works perfectly. To possibly help clarify for others, these are the steps you need to do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms

Then reboot, or do this to get things working instantly, as documented in README:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

[JohannSebastianBac]

Dear Pilot6

I signed in just to say thank you very beaucoup !

[Pilot6]

You are welcome.
And now there is no need to add kernel ppa for 14.04 users. Linux-generic-lts-vivid is in trusty-updates already.

[David_Jacobowitz]

I'm on a UX303LN. I just tried the steps below and I'm getting error messages that the focaltech-dkms package did not build. Any ideas? Where can I look to see the build messages?

david@cavalier:~$ uname -a
Linux cavalier 3.19.0-18-generic #18~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 20 09:38:33 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

david@cavalier:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 FocalTech FocalTech Touchpad in mouse emulation mode id=15 [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)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB2.0 UVC HD Webcam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

david@cavalier:~$ dmesg | grep pnp
[ 0.224369] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 0.224747] pnp 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active)
[ 0.224947] pnp 00:06: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs FLT0101 SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f03 PNP0f13 PNP0f12 (active)
[ 0.224985] pnp 00:07: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ATK3001 PNP030b (active)
[ 0.225998] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices










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Thanks a lot, Pilot6! I have an ASUS ZenBook UX303LN and I'm running Ubuntu 15.04, and using this the touchpad works perfectly. To possibly help clarify for others, these are the steps you need to do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms

Then reboot, or do this to get things working instantly, as documented in README:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

best,
David

[Pilot6]

What are the error messages? I use it on 14.04 with same kernel and it builds.

You probably did not remove 3.16 kernels and it really does not build for them. But it should not worry you, if you boot with 3.19.

[iwebseo]

@skagedal2 Thanks man you are life saver. It works perfectly on Asus Zenbook UX303LN with Ubuntu 15.04 fresh out of the box.
My trackpad works now with two fingers also the settings are available in the Mouse menu. Before there were no settings for trackpad under mouse/trackpad settings.

[armandg]

Hey Pilot6,

I'm currently running Manjaro (Kernel 3.18.20-1-MANJARO) on my Asus X550JK, will I be able to use my trackpad by installing this package as well?

[Pilot6]

As far as I know Manjaro does not use deb packages.
You can install the driver from https://github.com/hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms

It should build for 3.18, I guess. Actually it is for 3.17+