Elantech Touchpad Driver Windows 8 Download
Rayén Rundall
I did some searching to find a solution but I found nothing! All the information I got was "Is it a virus and all other useless rubbish" not one person knows how to solve that issue "WELL LOOK NO FURTHER" read through to find out how to fix it
Because I could not find a solution to solve the above problem, I right clicked on the Elan touchpad settings program that's listed in the Start Menu and clicked Uninstall and after that I restart my computer which strangely I had the same issue regarding the ETDctrlHelper.exe
Went into Control Panel, Device Manager and Uninstalled the Elan driver's from there and restart my computer and then reinstalled the Elan driver and after a restart IT WAS FIXED "No more issues with the annoying message after restarting regarding ETDctrlHelper.exe "SOLVED!"
Now I am trying to find the Elan Elantech program that was under start menu, so that when I have a USB mouse connected it will disable my touchpad so that while I'm playing games I don't accidentally move my hand over the touchpad
Can someone or HP please provide a download link so I can download the Elan Elantech touchpad settings software from the start menu PLEASE? I can't find it in the software downloads for my device! Or anywhere for that manner
As for the above issue regarding the problem that mostly everyone is having regarding the ETDctrlHelper.exe at restart, as I said I have solved this issue "You're welcome!" This problem was caused by Microsoft patching during updates "One thing I really get mad about is when Microsoft decides to patch drivers and driver software during updates" PLEASE STOP IT MICROSOFT, this way everyone doesn't get issues like this... The old saying is "If something is NOT broken, don't fix it" but in this case every time Microsoft patches drivers or driver software it causes mayhem
BACKGROUND INFO
My HP Stream - 14-ax000na does not have sufficient storage to perform an update in the normal way, so
I updated it to Windows 10 Home 20H2 by using the Media Creation Tool.
I wiped the existing Windows installation and installed 20H2 from scratch.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the result appeared to be a completely working system without having to download any HP specific drivers. Then I found that the touchpad does not handle gestures any more.
Looking on the HP web site for a suitable driver I see that the newest driver is labelled "Elan Touchpad Driver (Windows 10 v1903)". I downloaded it to see if it would also work with 20H2 but it does not.
The default trackpad driver of the Asus UX303U is truly catastrophic. I downloaded ELAN driver 16.21.13.3 which is fantastic, but I am not able to turn on two finger scrolling. (On Windows 10 Home 64 bit.)
Therefore, in an answer: did you try to uninstall the ELAN driver and the default touchpad driver, rebooted your pc and tried to download and install again the ELAN driver? Also, I found this question on the white screen of the ELAN settings: Elan Smart Pad - empty settings window; small chance that the first answer would help you:
I found another a solution to my own too fast scrolling problem. Go to setting>devices>mouse>. Under "roll the mouse wheel to scroll", check for multiple lines at a time and then slide the slider underneath to choose 2-3 lines at a time, whichever feels more comfy. Next go to your touchpad additional settings and choose multi touch settings>two-finger scrolling>tweak speed as per your liking and choose either auto scroll, interial scroll or continuous scroll or neither.
There are a lot of questions related to Elantech touchpads not working. This question is not a duplicate. Well, it is, but it isn't. Basically, these touchpads are super finicky and have given a lot of people problems under a variety of conditions.
Sometimes it works or doesn't work when I reboot and the mouse cursor does or doesn't appear. Sometimes it stops working when I'm typing on page 37 of a particular document in Abiword, but page 23 when using LibreOffice. Sometimes it becomes extra finicky when using even-numbered kernel updates, but super stable with odd-numbered updates. Same for any Ubuntu releases ending in .04 or .10 ... or that occur on a prime-numbered year, or when the sum of the digits of the version number is prime (1+8+0+4 = 13). Often it stops working when it "knows" I'm doing something important, exactly 666 ms before I am about to save my work.
In short, all of these details are just random noise. They have nothing to do with whether the touchpad works. It is just a horrible device designed to make my life miserable. But I can't tear my laptop apart to replace it!
Is there is no ritual, no magic, that can make this touchpad cooperate with operating systems christened outside the MS Temple? What praises can I utter? What blessings can I seek? To make this touchpad work?
The underlying problem is HID over I2C, an input device protocol created by Microsoft and first used in Windows 8. Because device manufacturers often don't read, or perhaps intentionally don't follow, specs, Microsoft has put a lot of little quirks into the driver to make it work. Or perhaps, it's the other way around? Microsoft has a lot of quirks in the driver so manufacturers cannot follow specs if they are to expect their devices to work (on Windows, until there is one of those "Creator" updates -- so named because they create new, never-before-seen bugs).
On Linux, the kernel module that handles this protocol is i2c-hid. People have varying degrees of success getting the touchpad to work by changing or patching kernels because fixing the driver for one device can break another device. If you find a kernel for which this device works and have no other problems, freeze that version immediately. Never uninstall old kernels unless you have two or more consecutive kernels for which the touchpad consistently works because the touchpad has quantum circuits that activate quarky behavior when it detects the number of stable kernels you have installed is less than or greater than 1.4142, plus-or-minus a counter-anti-counterclockwise spin, which is a single spin in three independent directions, simultaneously. (Such puzzles are not for us to question.)
A potential solution is to turn off HID over I2C in BIOS. There is no consistent name for this setting. It may be tied to some other setting, like EFI. It might be doable only from within Windows. It may be impossible. Consider performing a ritual in which plenty of alcohol is imbibed before attempting this. If this setting can be disabled, the psmouse kernel module will take care of the touchpad.
But sometimes you have to turn on HID over I2C. The nature of these devices is they may not work properly with the psmouse module. Sometimes it is helpful to perform ancient rituals in which sacred, so-called four-letter, words are shouted while the computer is rebooted or the touchpad on-off switch is pressed multiple times in a pattern that is pleasing to the gods of computation. If that does not work, the hopeless sometimes receive answers to their prayers upon ripping the touchpad from the rest of the computer.
There is no need for changes on HID or i2c setup, or any hardcore instalation. For me the problem was the Ubuntu Touchpad feature that disabled the right click to touch gesture(try tap with two fingers) use Gnome-tweak-tools to fix it.
Hi,im a new user of Zorin and im enjoying how light this is running on my old laptop.
One issue i am having is with my touchpad which seems to be very sensitive to touch and moves too fast,i have tried using the speed and sensitivity sliders from slow to fast in the touchpad GUI but this seems to have no effect on how the pointer moves.
I did some research into the issue and read a recommendation to use the Synaptics driver for better response,i have this driver installed but again i see no difference with sensitivity.
I also read Elantech touchpads have this issue with several different distros,but i will reach out and see if there is anything else recommended to try and improve the pointer.
So, I tried to use different live cd distros to check if it will work somewhere because the list of aliases for acpi name is different for some distros. No luck here.
I've updated the BIOS to the latest version - didn't change anything.
I don't have enough knowledge to understand Linux kernel driver logic - how it searches for vcc (I guess it is voltage control) and what I need to provide for the driver to work.
Will appreciate any help.
Thanks!
=> What notebook model is this exactly?
(It's not the case here, but one of my synaptics TPs simply starts deactivated, so I either have to use the HW switch or pass it a gently kick w/ synclient)
Do you have a parallel windows installation? (See link in my signature)
Can you toggle the TP in the BIOS settings?
This is ASUS Zephyrus G15 GA502IV notebook
This is not a HW switch case here. No hardware deactivation. It works perfectly in Windows (have dual boot).
I did disable Fast boot and secure boot in BIOS, I did play with some BIOS configurations also. But It lacks TP switch.
I'm not sure why release candidate kernel can't start X11. It shows that systemd-timesyncd.service is performing some heavy task using 3 of 16 CPU threads according to htop. journalctl just informs that it tries to start user's services in the infinite loop. While user's services fail to start - I can login as root in any other virtual console and check the dmesg. According to the logs - it fails to recognize the device too
Did notice that touchpad doesn't work in BIOS too. Neither does the USB mouse. May be it is by design and it should not work there. Contacted ASUS support asking if touchpad should work in BIOS and received "reflash BIOS" instructions.
Have you tried linux-5.8-rc5 available from Unofficial_user_repositories#miffe or linux-mainline?
Have you contacted the kernel developers about the issue? If it is not a packaging issue and there is no patch available can not solve the issue.