Touchpad detected as "PS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" on Asus N550JK
On my Asus N550KL laptop (running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04), my touchpad is detected as "PS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse".
xinput outputs:
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse id=13 [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)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]2 Answers
There seem to be a duplicate of the question here:
Touchpad not recognized on Asus N550JK - TP500L (FocalTech)
but since the answer worked for me I will re-post it here:
I finally came to this bug report:
It seems FocalTech touchpad needs a specific driver, and that work is in progress to integrate it into the mainline kernel.
currently, there seem to be a ppa to get a dkms driver for this touchpad :
After trying this, I can confirm the following procedure works :
1. add ppa: `sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms` 2. update the packages database: `sudo apt-get update` 3. install the dkms driver: `sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms` 4. rebootThe touchpad in now recognized. Two finger scrolling works, for example. Also, the zone where the buttons are won't make the cursor move.
Thanks for the community that retro-engeniered this (Asus just replied "no linux support nor technical information" to a request ! Very bad point to them (see the afore-mentioned bug report)).
(answered by alci, thanks a lot to you if you are reading me)
I just have a few things to add to this:
First, instead of rebooting, you can just run the following commands:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmousewhich will get it working just right =)
For those running Ubuntu 14.04:
I have not tested it myself, but the first command (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms) has a very nice verbose and explains the necessary steps for doing that on ubuntu 14.04, with the older kernel version.
Follow this step by step and you will get it working
Multitouch fix for Alps touchpad
Then execute these lines in terminal:
sudo update-initramfs -u
