Make Touchpad on ASUS Laptop Recognized

Thursday, January 19, 2012 Unknown 4 Comments

I am almost desperated when talking about touchpad-issue on my ASUS A43E laptop. ASUS, is not using Synaptics anymore (in my laptop and mostly ASUS laptop I heard), replaced by Elantech. And, the common Ubuntu still using synaptics by default. The only problem is, the touchpad become unrecognized, and dumbly recognized as PS/2 Logitech mouse :3

After a few day surfing in-out Ubuntu Forums, blogs and websites, finally today (just now) I found a solution on how to enable touchpad (include multi-tap, two finger scrolling, click on tap etc).

[How To Section]

sudo apt-get install dkms
cd /usr/src/
sudo wget http://planet76.com/drivers/elantech/psmouse-elantech-v6.tar.bz2
sudo tar jxvf psmouse-elantech-v6.tar.bz2
sudo dkms add -m psmouse -v elantech-v6
sudo dkms build -m psmouse -v elantech-v6
sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v elantech-v6

After above operations, just simply reboot your laptop OR, load the modul without restarting laptop by typing sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse

I got these steps from Ubuntu Forums (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1791081) and the steps (as threads and my reference) from Lauchpad's Bug site (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/681904/comments/64). The only problem is to disable touchpad via hotkeys. Damn. The others are working now, but only that thing left unfixed. For a while, I still using this method Enable/ Disable Touchpad on Ubuntu 11.04. But since my touchpad is recognized, I'd like to install an app to enable/ disable it :D

Cotto matte¹. I'll write it soon :)

Note :
¹ 'Wait a moment' in Japanese