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kylestach99

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 4

Asus K501U trackpad

I'm trying to setup Arch on an Asus K501UX laptop. However, for some reason I cannot get it to recognize that the laptop's built-in trackpad even exists.
Running xinput shows the following:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SUNPLUSS E Mouse                        	id=10	[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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam                   	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ SUNPLUSS E Mouse                        	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]

(SUNPLUSS E Mouse is a usb mouse that I plugged in)
Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks!

Last edited by kylestach99 (2015-12-26 05:38:12)

mubster

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Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 8

Re: Asus K501U trackpad

you did install xf86-input-synaptics right?

sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

if not that should do the trick

kylestach99

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 4

Re: Asus K501U trackpad

you did install xf86-input-synaptics right?

sudo pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

if not that should do the trick

Yes, of course. That didn't do it, unfortunately.

mubster

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Registered: 2015-12-23

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Re: Asus K501U trackpad

is there anything in the x log, regarding touchpads.

~/.local/share/xorg/xorg.0.log

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

or in the systemd journal if you use gdm

kylestach99

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 4

Re: Asus K501U trackpad

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep pad

does not find any matching lines

kylestach99

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Registered: 2015-12-26

Posts: 4

Re: Asus K501U trackpad

An update: the trackpad works perfectly fine on a xubuntu live USB. Any ideas? I'd rather be using Arch, but Ubuntu will work fine if I have to use it.
Edit: xinput calls it "ELANTECH1000:00" and the Xorg log says that it's using the evdev driver. However, I have the xf86-input-evdev driver installed on Arch and it still doesn't show up in xinput.

Last edited by kylestach99 (2015-12-28 01:26:00)