Asus tp300la touch

La receta para que funcione correctamente el touchpad y gestures con dos dedos.
Denominado FOCALTECH.... supongo que como sátira al nombre real.

Pensaba que ASUS ofrecía drivers para Linux en sus equipos, pero parece que en este caso no.


http://askubuntu.com/questions/609892/touchpad-not-recognized-on-asus-n550jk-focaltech


I finally came to this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1372609

It seems FocalTech touchpad needs a specific driver, and that work is in progress to integrate it into the mainline kernel.

currently, there seem to be a ppa to get a dkms driver for this touchpad : http://ppa.launchpad.net/hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms

After trying this, I can confirm the following procedure works :

add ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
update the packages database

sudo apt-get update
install the dkms driver

sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms
reboot

The touchpad in now recognized. Two finger scrolling works, for example. Also, the zone where the buttons are won't make the cursor move.

Thanks for the community that retro-engeniered this (Asus just replied "no linux support nor technical information" to a request ! Very bad point to them (see the afore-mentioned bug report)).