Touchpad not responding Asus Rog G752VS

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#1

Hello,

The problem is that after installing Leap 42.1, Leap 42.2 or Thumbleweed I have this problem: touchpad is not working.
Laptop is Asus G752VS, and currently is installed openSUSE 42.2

Hope you have some tips that I can try to enable it.

Thank you.

P.S. I paste the xinput list output, maybe that will help.
tyranul@linux-25mk:~> xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ASASTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MacroKey id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ASASTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MacroKey id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN1203:00 04F3:301E Touchpad id=15 [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)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASASTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MacroKey id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASASTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG MacroKey id=19 [slave keyboard (3)]
tyranul@linux-25mk:~>

#2

Sounds like it’s a an issue with the kernel.

I recommend adding the following line to “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=” in /etc/default/grub

nouveau.modeset=0  acpi_osi=! acpi_backlight=native  idle=nomwait

Next, type: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and reboot.

In the meantime, please submit a bug report with bugzilla so that they add any changes to a kernel update.

Another option is to update the kernel using this repo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/

Consider using suse-prime with a driver downloaded from the Nvidia site instead of Bumblebee.

#3

FWIW, an Ubuntu bug report describing the same regression. Post #23 mentions one user having success with ‘i8042.kbdreset=1’ boot parameter, but YMMV.

#4

Yes. Looks like the Ubuntu user also discovered from another posting that his Asus Rog G752VS laptop uses an Elantech touchpad.
Command to find out which touchpad you use.

dmesg | grep pnp

Ref: http://askubuntu.com/questions/636350/elantech-touchpad-not-detected-anymore-on-ubuntu-15

This replaces my recommendation with yours by adding “i8042.kbdreset=1” to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= i8042.kbdreset=1

Then run: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and reboot.