Acer Aspire One 725 Elantech Touchpad not working

[NihilisticNabarlek]

Hello,

I just installed 12.04 on an Acer Aspire One 725, and after updating the kernel to 3.4, everything seems to work except the Elantech touchpad, which doesn't work at all.

"xinput list" in terminal shows the following:


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)]
⎜ ↳ 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)]

still can't get the touchpad running. Any thoughts? ideas?

Thank-you

[eneskuray]

did you look additional drivers on dock ?

[anirbanghosh]

Same here. I have Acer Aspire One 722.
Elantech Touchpad is not working.

[cortman]

Hi, try this or check out some solutions here.

[felo242]

Hi,

I have the same problem. Just bought an Aspire One 725 and tried Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Mint Cinnamon 13, both sadly do not support the touchpad.

Hi, try this or check out some solutions here.

this did not work for me

[EDIT]
Now it works Had to press Fn-F7 afterwards. However scrolling does not work yet...

[NihilisticNabarlek]

Hi, try this or check out some solutions here.

Nope, this definitely doesn't work, as soon as I enter: sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf it just hangs at the terminal forever, after about an hour I just killed the process.

[cortman]

Sure you don't just need to re-enable it with Fn+F7? That seems to be a common problem.

[NihilisticNabarlek]

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

[cortman]

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

Great, thanks for sharing! Please mark the thread [SOLVED] so others know they can find a solution in it.
Good luck!

[OlsMo]

Can someone explain this a little more detailed?. I dont understand what you do to make it work please tell me