I fixed the driver to work on newer touchpad firmwares, and sent off the patches to the linux-input mailinglist: http://www.spinics.net/lists /linux-input/msg08277.html
These patches make things Just Work on my ASUS UL30A, but I've pretty much hardcoded my particular firmware version to avoid detecting non- elantech devices wrongly. However, I also added a force_elantech option to the psmouse module. If a kernel with those four patches applied still doesn't recognize your elantech device as such, please retry with force_elantech=1 and report the firmware version of your hardware as reported in the kernel log. -- Touchpad not recognized on Asus U80 and UL30 series. Touchpad Panel missing from mouse settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418282 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs