Bugzilla – Bug 716232
Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook touchpad not recognized
Last modified: 2011-10-27 18:11:38 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
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.
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'
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.
Marked "resolved / duplicate of 716852" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 716852 ***