I managed to force detection of the touchpad by commenting out the magic
knock code in the elantech.c file and then compiling a new psmouse.ko
module. However, when I load the new driver module the mouse pointer
behaves erratically and the following output appears in
/var/log/kern.log:
Feb 11 09:40:09 eko kernel: [25633.999438] elantech.c: assuming hardware
version 1, firmware version 4.1
Feb 11 09:40:09 eko kernel: [25634.073989] elantech.c: Synaptics capabilities
query result 0x08, 0x18, 0x0c.
Feb 11 09:40:09 eko kernel: [25634.598300] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as
/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.329410] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.338950] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.348582] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.358104] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.367788] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:15 eko kernel: [25640.367792] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.929992] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.939450] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.949044] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.958596] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.968183] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
Feb 11 09:40:16 eko kernel: [25640.92] psmouse.c: Touchpad at
isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
This is on a dell 11z.
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Elantech touchpad is incorrectly recogonised as a ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123775
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