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[Tom Catullo <tcatullo25@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have an Asus Q501LA laptop, and I've tried almost every custom kernel
posted in the comments here. Not one has allowed my touchpad to work.
Interestingly, all of the customer kernels seem to get rid of the odd
behavior where the cursor keeps spontaneously jumping to the left a
centimeter every five seconds or so, which is nice, but the touchpad
still does not work.

I've tried booting with i8042.noloop=1 as well (and ran sudo update-grub
after making the change), but to no avail. My touchpad only works if I
boot with psmouse.proto=bare, but of course multi-touch functionality
does not work, and my palm moves the cursor all over the place. This is
quite annoying, as I was sure that at least one of these custom kernels
which Pilot6 and Mathias have worked so arduously on would have worked.

I know my cause may be hopeless at this point, but does anyone have any
idea what might be wrong?

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Title:
  Touchpad detected as mouse on Asus ux303ln laptop

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux package in Arch Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi! I'm following the bug reporting documentation here:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingTouchpadDetection#In_case_Touchpad_features_like_scrolling.2C_tapping.2C_etc._do_not_work_at_all.

  The touchpad on my new Asus ux303ln laptop is detected as a mouse, so
  I can't access touchpad features such as two-finger scrolling.

  The laptop was very recently released and I couldn't find any
  outstanding firmware updates for it through Asus's Windows-based
  tools.

  % lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04

  Per the instructions on the wiki, I'm attaching output from
  /proc/bus/input/devices,` xinput --list`, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

  This machine also has a touchscreen, which I'm fairly certain is the
  "maXtouch digitizer" visible in the logs. I haven't yet restarted in
  Windows to see if it says anything useful about the touchpad, but I
  can do so if that's helpful. This is a fresh install of 14.04 and I
  haven't done much customization of it apart from installing some
  applications and changing the default resolution.

  The only relevant bit I noticed in /var/log/dmesg is this:

  [    3.967547] input: PS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as
  /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input11

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: linux-image-3.13.0-35-generic 3.13.0-35.62
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  tim        2234 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  tim        2234 F.... pulseaudio
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Sep 22 14:30:33 2014
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e6052f15-271a-4424-aac2-9b0ee1e490ed
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-22 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  Lsusb:
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03eb:8a32 Atmel Corp. 
   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:9700 Suyin Corp. 
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
  MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. UX303LN
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-35-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=4f908b1b-e06f-4dc9-9642-e952d2598e42 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-35-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-35-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                             1.127.6
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/23/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: UX303LN.203
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: UX303LN
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrUX303LN.203:bd06/23/2014:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnUX303LN:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnUX303LN:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: UX303LN
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.

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