'Elantech Touchpad' becomes semi-unresonsive after a few minutes in 'ASUS N56VJ-S4143H'

[xenocrates]

After a few minutes of usage, the touchpad will stop responding to multi-touch gestures, like two-finger scrolling, and tap to click is not possible. I have had luck with reenabling these features from time to time by running

'synclient TouchpadOff=0'

although this only works about 1 in 10 times. It should be noted, that sometimes re touchpad becomes completely unresponsive instead of just not responding to multi-touch and tapping. When this is the case, the above command fixes the issue until next reboot. I have tried collecting some debugging info, but I noticed, that xev does not give any output, when two fingers are touching the touchpad.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

xenocrates, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To see if this is already resolved, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]