11 Dec, 2011
How To Fix Samsung Series 7 Not Working Elantech Touchpad on
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The Samsung Series 7 is a new laptop from Samsung. Actually the features work excellent until a user found a problem with the Elantech touchpad. It is suddenly unresponsive especially when you do two-finger scrolling. In addition, you also cannot do the multitouch gestures. It was so disappointing since most of people expect the multitouch gestures for their working.
Sponsored LinksResponding to the problem above, there are some analyses. First, the psmouse-elantech package does not work properly although it shows the correct code. Yet, the device is still applying the PS/2 Protocoll especially the ETPS/2 Protocoll. The good thing is for you the Linux users. The linux-mainline (3.2 RC2, as time of writing) does respond the touchpad above and it works well. However, the graphics do not work at all with the 3.2 RC2. Besides, you will find that the 3.2 RC2 arises the complaint about not finding the modules on making the Kernel image. Meanwhile, the modules are important such as video and AHCI. So, the important thing for solving the problem is to figure out the compatibility between the drivers. For the Elantech touchpad, it is compatible for the Linux-Kernel 3.2 RC2.
Here the touchpad is recognized as PS/2 mouse. There is an AUR-Package psmouse-elantech available. It switches the psmouse Kernel module. Although you find the touchpad name is true, it won’t recognize the touchdevice by xorg. However, the good side is with the 3.2 RC2, the touch and scroll work well, but the clickpad does not. The two and three finger touches for right a middle click works fine, though.
