Comment 164 for bug 1372609

I have an Asus Q501LA laptop, and I've tried almost every custom kernel posted in the comments here. Not one has allowed my touchpad to work. Interestingly, all of the customer kernels seem to get rid of the odd behavior where the cursor keeps spontaneously jumping to the left a centimeter every five seconds or so, which is nice, but the touchpad still does not work.

I've tried booting with i8042.noloop=1 as well (and ran sudo update-grub after making the change), but to no avail. My touchpad only works if I boot with psmouse.proto=bare, but of course multi-touch functionality does not work, and my palm moves the cursor all over the place. This is quite annoying, as I was sure that at least one of these custom kernels which Pilot6 and Mathias have worked so arduously on would have worked.

I know my cause may be hopeless at this point, but does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?