Hello everyone, I am new to this community and this operating system. I installed it on an HP Pavilion Gaming 15-ec1013ns, and everything works fine except for the touchpad. I have tried several solutions without success and hope you can help me.
What I have tried:
Modify GRUB: I added the following line at the end of /etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT="ioapic_ack=new"
Xorg configuration file: I created a new file for the touchpad in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/, but it had no effect.
Manually loading the psmouse module: I tried running:
modprobe psmouse
Checking dmesg logs: I executed the following commands to check system logs:
dmesg | grep -i i2c
dmesg | grep -i ps2
Any ideas or suggestions?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
There is a possibility for the internal touchpad to be electronically wired via USB bus. You can verify how it is wired with lspci and lsusb commands (for example via a live distro or TTY of installer). If it is wired via USB, you should enable USB mouse in Global Config -> USB Devices tab
Hello, again me.
I have bad news, when I first enabled the usb mouse worked perfectly touchpad. But now I have turned it back on and nothing. And looking at the dmesg | grep -i i2c I found two errors that gives me:
[3.896979] i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN0718:00: failed to fetch HID description: -121
[3.896988] i2c_hid_acpi i2c-ELAN0718:00: Failed to fetch the HID Description
Well, my friend tried some boot setup, and one of them worked but for that single boot. Added “nomodeset”, and the touchpad worked, but when I rebooted the laptop and tried to add “nomodeset” in the same position, the touchpad stopped working. Also another friend told me that maybe the drivers were the problem, because I never updated them.
