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  1. Bug #1530745
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1530745

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Brent Fallin (brentf777) wrote :

I experience this issue as well running Linux Mint 17.3 (based on Ubuntu 14). I updated to the latest BIOS (216) before I ever installed Linux on the machine. It has no effect. The old BIOS was not "buggy" by the way. It was a very minor update. The touchpad is not recognized at all. The hardware on this machine is just "too new." The touchpad cannot even be made to work in Windows 7. I think it's only functional in Windows 10 (and maybe 8). I know of no version of Linux where the touchpad on the machine works at the current time.

Output of
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.8 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.
GL552VW.216
# SMBIOS implementations newer than version 2.8 are not
# fully supported by this version of dmidecode.
11/20/2015

dmidecode is 2.12-2 (reported as the latest version)