Elantech touchpad not working in 18.04

Question

I have an Elantech touchpad that is not working with Ubuntu 18.04. It doesn't recognize it at all, there's nothing about it in xinput and nothing coming up in cat /proc/bus/input/devices for example.

I've tried some of the solutions suggested for previous versions of Ubuntu, such as editing /etc/default/grub with i8042.nomux=1 and i8042.reset. The patch suggested before won't work on the current kernel as well, so I'm at a loss...anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

Try using these below steps:-

1. Install the package xserver-xorg-input-libinput
2. Uninstall xserver-xorg-input-evdev
3. Uninstall xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
4. Reboot and see if things work better.

got these steps from 16.04: Elantech touchpad not working on new laptop , and it worked for me

Comments

[pomsky]

See this: askubuntu.com/questions/1033033/…

[Yuyuko]

Thanks, I looked in the BIOS but only stuff I found was related to low power use...tried toggling it for the touchpad but nothing changed.