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Elantech Improperly Detected as Clickpad

Asked by Trip Ericson

I just bought an Asus G752VY laptop, and its Elantech touchpad with physical buttons is being improperly detected by the elan_i2c driver as being a Clickpad. As such, the left button only works when my finger is touching the touch area, and the right button doesn't work at all. I can fix the left button problem by using xinput to change the ClickPad setting to false, but the right button still doesn't work, and under the "Synaptics Capabilities" line, it shows 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1; the third 0 indicating no right button. Any ideas on how I might resolve this? Is it a bug that should be filed accordingly? I saw some DKMS drivers for older kernels but those no longer work in 16.10. Thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Is it this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1526393

Seems to affect multiple distributions

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Trip Ericson (rovfan) said : 		#2

No, it's not that. It gets detected just fine, it's just detected as having a Clickpad and no right button even though it's not a Clickpad and does have a right button.

For kicks, I tried to rmmod elan_i2c and modprobe psmouse but that resulted in the touchpad completely not functioning. I also tried installing some of the dkms solutions I saw online but they don't seem to compile in 16.10. I'm hopeful that may be the type of solution I need, though I'm not sure how to remedy the fact that they won't compile.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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