Bug 716232

Summary:	Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook touchpad not recognized
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	M. Edward Ed Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	znmeb
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.4
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Description M. Edward Ed Borasky 2011-09-06 20:12:23 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.220 Safari/535.1

I just got an Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook. Everything seems to work in 11.4 Gnome except the touchpad. It is coming up as PS/2 mouse, but the kernel doesn't appear to be recognizing that it's a touchpad. It's close to unusable - it needs real drivers.

I haven't tried 12.1 - I plan to,though. All I've been able to find out via Google is Ubuntu 11.04 has similar issues and that there are some drivers that seem to fix it. See

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/681904/comments/103

and

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/681904

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openSUSE 11.4
2. Boot into GNOME desktop
3. Use the machine.
Actual Results:  
The touchpad is usable, but none of the touchpad utilites recognize it . they think it's a mouse. And it's jumpy and erratic. And there's no way to turn it off when using an external mouse.

Expected Results:  
All the touchpad utilities work and I can turn it off when using an external USB mouse

Comment 1 M. Edward Ed Borasky 2011-09-07 04:57:23 UTC

Here's an entry on the kernel bugzilla that might be relevant:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27442

I'll dump what I can on the device from Windows 7 tomorrow. That should yield a lot of data - there appear to be Asus Windows drivers specific to it.

Comment 2 M. Edward Ed Borasky 2011-09-08 17:15:33 UTC

I'm running the openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 5 GNOME LiveCD on the machine at the moment. It sees the device as a generic PS/2 mouse just like 11.4 does. 

[    1.629433] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

So we can't mark this 'fixed in 12.1'

Comment 3 M. Edward Ed Borasky 2011-10-27 18:09:46 UTC

I think we can close this as "fixed in 12.1" and/or "duplicate of bug 716852." There's a working patch set on its way into 12.1 as of a few minutes ago.

Comment 4 M. Edward Ed Borasky 2011-10-27 18:11:38 UTC

Marked "resolved / duplicate of 716852"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 716852 ***