The same situation here as Arushi , I have an HP pavilion 14-ab042TX laptop.The touchpad supports basic functionalities like single click but no multitouch and two finger scroll. I am using ubuntu 16.04 and kernel is 4.4.0-36-generic. The output of xinput is :
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ HP Truevision HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ HP Wireless hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] When i do xinput list-props 12 , it shows: Device 'PS/2 Elantech Touchpad': Device Enabled (168): 1 Coordinate Transformation Matrix (170): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000 Device Accel Profile (289): 0 Device Accel Constant Deceleration (290): 1.000000 Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (291): 1.000000 Device Accel Velocity Scaling (292): 10.000000 Device Product ID (285): 2, 1 Device Node (286): "/dev/input/event6" Evdev Axis Inversion (293): 0, 0 Evdev Axes Swap (295): 0 Axis Labels (296): "Rel X" (178), "Rel Y" (179) Button Labels (297): "Button Left" (171), "Button Middle" (172), "Button Right" (173), "Button Wheel Up" (174), "Button Wheel Down" (175) Evdev Scrolling Distance (298): 0, 0, 0 Evdev Middle Button Emulation (299): 0 Evdev Middle Button Timeout (300): 50 Evdev Third Button Emulation (301): 0 Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (302): 1000 Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (303): 3 Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (304): 20 Evdev Wheel Emulation (305): 0 Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (306): 0, 0, 4, 5 Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (307): 10 Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (308): 200 Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (309): 4 Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (310): 0 On doing dmesg | grep elantech gives: [ 3.547709] psmouse serio1: elantech: unknown hardware version, aborting... This message is also displayed every time I boot ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1166442 Title: Elantech clickpad/touchpad lacks multitouch features. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1166442/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs