Kernel 4.4.240 brakes the touchpad and keyboard diriver on my acer laptop
by louigi600 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BA3G)
I have an ACER Aspire ES1-111M running Slackware 14.2_64 and up until last kernel update everything was working fine (well the wifi/bt driver needs a separate driver).
Recently I applied all the patches including kernel and first thing I noticed was that the synaptec touch-pad stopped working.
I did a bit of fiddling and by pressing the keys to enable and disable the touch-pad sometimes even the laptop keyboard stops working (but the power button still works fortunately).
I tried compiling 4.4.247 with same options but still the very same thing is happening.
Anyone know a workaround ? (using the older kernel doesn't count ... I'm already doing that now to write this message)
If I remember right back when the laptop was new I had to append this to the elilo config "i8042.nopnp" to get the touch-pad to work but it soon became unnecessary and it is commented now but it may give a clue to what broke.
Recently I applied all the patches including kernel and first thing I noticed was that the synaptec touch-pad stopped working.
I did a bit of fiddling and by pressing the keys to enable and disable the touch-pad sometimes even the laptop keyboard stops working (but the power button still works fortunately).
I tried compiling 4.4.247 with same options but still the very same thing is happening.
Anyone know a workaround ? (using the older kernel doesn't count ... I'm already doing that now to write this message)
If I remember right back when the laptop was new I had to append this to the elilo config "i8042.nopnp" to get the touch-pad to work but it soon became unnecessary and it is commented now but it may give a clue to what broke.