Workaround: at boot, press F2 to get into BIOS, then set trackpad to Basic instead of Advanced. This even lets you scroll with a two-fingered gesture, and changes the output of cat /proc/bus/input/devices to:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse1 event8 B: PROP=5 B: EV=b B: KEY=e520 610000 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=660800011000003 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1487748 Title: Touchpad not recognized in Aspire E15 e5-573g-59c3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1487748/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
