ETPS/2 Elantech touchpad

[richb]

Kubuntu 13.04, Acer Aspire V5-572G laptop with Elantech Clickpad. I get no response from the clickpad and have been using a USB mouse. The system recognizes the device. Tried adding an xorg.conf file and stanza for the clickpad, but still no response.
Stanzas added:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
	Screen      2  "Screen2" RightOf "Screen1"
	Screen      3  "Screen3" RightOf "Screen2"
	Screen      4  "Screen4" RightOf "Screen3"
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
	InputDevice    "Touchpad"
EndSection

 Section "InputDevice"        Identifier      "Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "1"
        Option          "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "1"
        Option          "TapButton1"            "1"
        Option          "TapButton2"            "2"
        Option          "TapButton3"            "3"
EndSection

[Snowhog]

Is the touchpad 'active' when the USB mouse is not connected?

[richb]

Is the touchpad 'active' when the USB mouse is not connected?

No

[Snowhog]

Take a look at Fix for ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad not working in 12.04

[richb]

Take a look at Fix for ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad not working in 12.04

That caused my system to not boot at all. I had to remove the xorg.conf and now it boots, but the system now reports no touchpad at all.

EDIT: But upon a reboot, still reporting no touchpad the touchpad works in an elementary fashion. That is cursor movement and left/right mouse clicks, no scroll.

[Guest]

I have similar problem but with SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad. Before login TouchPad working, when i login as quest it still working. When i login with my user he stop response. I find that the command xinput enable "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" turn TouchPad work again.

P.S This happend when i upgrade from 12.10 to 13.03.

[richb]

In my case xinput does not report the touchpad at all. Before I fiddled with settings, I will need to search my memory for what I did, it did report the touchpad, but it did not work. Using xinput enable (name of touchpad) had no effect at that time.

[Snowhog]

That caused my system to not boot at all. I had to remove the xorg.conf and now it boots, but the system now reports no touchpad at all.

EDIT: But upon a reboot, still reporting no touchpad the touchpad works in an elementary fashion. That is cursor movement and left/right mouse clicks, no scroll.

Scrolling is often specified as available at the left or right edge of the pad. Tap and move your finger up/down on either the left or right edge of the pad.

[richb]

I knew that. It simply does not work. Since the touchpad does not report in xinput, I believe it is being reported as a mouse.

richard@richard-Aspire-V5-572G:~$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer                          id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=9    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=10   [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse                        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)]
    ↳ Power Button                              id=7    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                              id=8    [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)]

[Snowhog]

Check the BIOS Setup for "legacy USB support". If it does, try switching to it.