Several new Asus laptops are missing touchpad support
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Bug Description
E502SA and several other new Asus laptops are missing touchpad support.
Support for the Asus touchpad has been introduced only recently:
http://
From the development kernel git:
"commit 9ce12d8be12c943
Author: Brendan McGrath <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 29 18:59:25 2016 +1100
HID: asus: Add i2c touchpad support
Update the hid-asus module to add multitouch support for the Asus i2c touchpad.
This patch aims to resolve the issue raised here:E
https:/
The latest mainline kernel, Linux 4.9 that was released 11th of December doesn't contain this patch.
I was able to get touchpad features to work with E502SA after patching Xenial Xerus kernel with the above patch and the patches it depends on.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: linux-image-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Dec 18 15:41:30 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-14 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b52b Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d3:3423 IMC Networks
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. E502SA
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.157.6
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/20/2016
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: E502SA.300
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: E502SA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: E502SA
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Yakkety): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
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added: verification-done-yakkety removed: verification-needed-yakkety |
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