Make Touchpad on ASUS Laptop Recognized
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 :3After 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
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
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