Elantech touchpad recognized as PS/2 mouse Ubuntu 13.10

You probably have a laptop with a newer version of the Elan touchpad.

Check out comment #137 on this thread - download the dkms package and follow the instructions to see if that helps.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1166442/+index?comments=all

Note that this doesn't seem to work for some Gigabyte notebooks.

[Edit] As requested, the solution from the link above is:

Step 1: Download the following dkms package

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1166442/+attachment/3941591/+files/psmouse-elantech-x551c.tar.gz

Step 2: Run the following commands in the download directory (or adjust the paths accordingly):

sudo dkms ldtarball psmouse-elantech-x551c.tar.gz
sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v elantech-x551c
sudo rmmod psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

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