Comment 78 for bug 123775

That went pretty badly for me (eee 901). The elantech device was clearly detected, but the touchpad configuration options were not available in the mouse capplet (GNOME), and--much, much worse--the touchpad was jumpy. I.e. it would work seemingly alright for quick movement over large distances, but trying to click on some little icon or whatever was an exercise in futility, as the cursor would not move for a good while as the stroke was occurring, then suddenly jump past the point I was trying to get to.

I'm attaching dmesg and xorg.log output.