One further datapoint: I noticed a setting in the bios menu: touchpad "advanced" vs "basic". Switching to "basic" makes the touchpad work in 4.1.0rc1. That's very nice although I have no idea what the difference between the two might be. Maybe I'll find out some day.
Now only the shutdown issue remains... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1449252 Title: Touchpad on Acer Aspire ES1-311-C37D does not work with kernel > 3.14.39-031439. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1449252/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs