On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:21:16PM -0400, MY wrote: > Dear Team, > > I apologise for writing to the list, as this is very minor, but since > I had thought linux 4.5 would support touchpad ELAN1000:00 04F3:0401, > I was very surprised to find a motionless pointer upon trying the live > non free firmware iso. This being "unofficial" iso, I then used the > official cd, as graphical install, with the same result. Did not > complete install as I am drowning in work this week, but have seen this > with most current install media from Arch to Ubuntu. > > Also, and I have no idea why this would be true, but, since > purchasing a bleeding edge laptop, I have tried many distros with > kernels greater than 4.2 which would appear to support hardware and > one behaviour is always the same, and I am sure you are all aware of > it, but I wish merely to re-iterate it: > > the command shutdown causes reboot rather than halt, and this has been > entirely independent of distro or installer type, being well moaned > about in fora everywhere. > > > As to the touchpad, the hid controller seems to prevent the > recognition of the actual physical touchpad as a real device, and this > has been true in all live trials as well as my current ubuntu install. > (I have made a kludge to type quickly....) > > If there is anything I can send you to help, please let me know, and > again, accept my apologies for the disturbance.
Did you try loading the module elan_i2c? i2c generally does NOT auto detect and hence doesn't auto load modules. -- Len Sorensen
