Re: touchpad
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:21:16PM -0400, MY wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> I apologise for writing to the list, as this is very minor, but since
> I had thought linux 4.5 would support touchpad ELAN1000:00 04F3:0401,
> I was very surprised to find a motionless pointer upon trying the live
> non free firmware iso. This being "unofficial" iso, I then used the
> official cd, as graphical install, with the same result. Did not
> complete install as I am drowning in work this week, but have seen this
> with most current install media from Arch to Ubuntu.
>
> Also, and I have no idea why this would be true, but, since
> purchasing a bleeding edge laptop, I have tried many distros with
> kernels greater than 4.2 which would appear to support hardware and
> one behaviour is always the same, and I am sure you are all aware of
> it, but I wish merely to re-iterate it:
>
> the command shutdown causes reboot rather than halt, and this has been
> entirely independent of distro or installer type, being well moaned
> about in fora everywhere.
>
>
> As to the touchpad, the hid controller seems to prevent the
> recognition of the actual physical touchpad as a real device, and this
> has been true in all live trials as well as my current ubuntu install.
> (I have made a kludge to type quickly....)
>
> If there is anything I can send you to help, please let me know, and
> again, accept my apologies for the disturbance.
Did you try loading the module elan_i2c?
i2c generally does NOT auto detect and hence doesn't auto load modules.
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Len Sorensen
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