Elantech ETPS/2 Touchpad and Xorg 1.6.0
Hey there!
I’ve finally got my Elantech Touchpad working under Xorg 1.6.0 (from Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope)! After a long time googling for answers, I found the solution. It’s quite simple, open up a terminal window and run the following commands:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
After that, you’ll notice your touchpad is working, great! Now, using your favorite text editor and root permissions, create the file /etc/modprobe.d/options and add this line into it, in order to make the changes permanent:
options psmouse proto=imps
Good luck! 
Great! Fixed my problem here.
Thank You! It worked for me!
Thanks this helped a lot.
worked for me
great fix, was wondering why my clevo m570a series touch pad stopped working after an upgrade from 8.04 > 8.10 > 9.04 … it worked fine by default the previous two versions, but this fix did the trick
Yeah, I think such problems shouldn’t happen nowadays. But we can always find workarounds for all things Ubuntu, it’s just a matter of googling a bit
Cheers
Works for me too. Actually my touchpad worked before but I was having response time issues, fixed using the same method
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Thanks,
It’s good to have a mouse
how to have root permission?
i try to save the file. but this comes out.
“The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to /etc/modprobe.d/options.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available.”
You have to use sudo; That’s how you get root permissions. Wish you luck. Cheers
wow, you’re the man,mordor! Now I can throw my usb mouse away
Thanks a lot,dude!
Thank you so much. I did really appreciate this post. For a long time I have been tried fix this problem. You did it!
THANK YOU!
Finally i can utilize Ubuntu 9.10 to the fully!
Thanks! After googling around I found this site and it worked even on freshly installed Ubuntu 9.10 (although I thought it should work anyway)!
thnx a million,,, worked like a charm !!!