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Hitos

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Registered: 2025-11-02

Posts: 1

Elantech ETPS/2 Touchpad Not working

Hello Everyone, Newbie Here so basically I have an HP laptop and I just dual boot installed arch with windows- and my touchpad seems to not be working
I have tried fixes along the lines
sudo cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -A5 -i elantech
sudo dmesg |grep -i elantech
echo "options psmouse elantech_smbus=0" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf

But none of the general fixes have worked here is some of my system information
Laptop Model: Hp-ec0043ax
Touchpad : ETPS/2 based
Some information I have collected
Kernel version: 6.12.56-1-lts

sudo dmesg |grep -i elantech
[   26.578614] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x4d1f01)
[   26.591540] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x10, 0x1a, 0x0d.
[   26.604490] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 01, ca, 86
[   26.679083] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12
[  642.144949] psmouse serio1: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x4d1f01)
[  642.158363] psmouse serio1: elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x10, 0x1a, 0x0d.
[  642.171742] psmouse serio1: elantech: Elan sample query result 01, ca, 86
[  642.246090] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input21

xinput list
WARNING: running xinput against an Xwayland server. See the xinput man page for details.
⎡ Virtual core pointer                        id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                  id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer:16                         id=6    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:16                id=7    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ xwayland-pointer-gestures:16                id=8    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                       id=3    [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard                 id=5    [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ xwayland-keyboard:16                        id=9    [slave  keyboard (3)]

I have tried parameters like
elantech_smbus=0
elantech_smbus=0 proto=imps
elantech_smbus=1 proto=imps

Any solution would be much appreciated Since I am just transitioning to linux
Signing off, Hitos

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 24,924

Re: Elantech ETPS/2 Touchpad Not working

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p2270712 maybe give that a shot? If you unsure about compiling your own kernel I have a tree lying around I might get to, but I won't be able to attempt that before tomorrow evening (assuming I don't forget, if loqs or gromit sees this first, feel free )

Last edited by V1del (2025-11-04 16:17:02)