I can confirm this too, on 16.10 and 4.8 kernel. The touchpad gets
detected as a mouse by udevd and libinput configures it as a mouse. Any
workarounds for this? To trick udev, that it is a trackpad? I'm afraid
this is a kernel issue, not Ubuntu/xorg :/
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Did some more digging.
- Kernel 4.10-rc1 - the same
- /dev/input/eventX - does not even fire multitouch events, so no luck here
- Tried sniffing bluetooth data with hcidump - and, oddly, this does not fire
multitouch events also!
So probably, the driver has to request multitouch support from
I can also confirm that all works well with vanilla 18.04. Multitouch,
gestures, etc. :)
Typing from it now :)
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I did some more digging, and it seems that the Asus driver sends
additional commands to the device to enable the multitouch capabilities.
This thread confirms it:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98770
I've also did a packet dump on widnows of the device communications with
the OS
I can confirm that the touchpad multitouch works since the 4.15 kernel
(installed from here http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-
ppa/mainline/v4.15/)! No blacklisting nesesery.
For more advanced gestures you can additionally use this
https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures (also tested,
I can confirm that still happens in Ubuntu 24.04 and executing
update-alternatives --set x-cursor-theme
/usr/share/icons/Adwaita/cursor.theme
fixes it,
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