Comment 4 for bug 1548127

The hardware works fine under Windows 10 (bleurgh).

I had a look through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and found these lines

[ 9.901] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad (/dev/input/event6)
[ 9.901] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[ 9.901] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
[ 9.901] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons"
[ 9.901] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[ 9.901] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 9.901] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 9.901] compiled for 1.17.1, module version = 1.8.2
[ 9.901] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[ 9.901] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 21.0
[ 9.901] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad'
[ 9.901] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: always reports core events
[ 9.902] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
[ 9.972] (II) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: found clickpad property
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: x-axis range 0 - 3097 (res 31)
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: y-axis range 0 - 2119 (res 32)
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: pressure range 0 - 255
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: finger width range 0 - 15
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: buttons: left double triple
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0xe
[ 9.972] (**) Option "SoftButtonAreas" "50% 0 82% 0 0 0 0 0"
[ 9.972] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found
[ 9.972] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: always reports core events
[ 10.016] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input12/event6"
[ 10.016] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 12)
[ 10.016] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[ 10.016] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[ 10.016] (**) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.053
[ 10.016] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 10.016] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration profile 1
[ 10.016] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 10.016] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 10.016] (--) synaptics: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: touchpad found
[ 10.017] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad (/dev/input/mouse1)
[ 10.017] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"