How do i fix my touchpad on my acer 720 chromebook ask ubuntu. If this piques your interest, look up crouton chromebook in a browser to learn more about it and how to install it. Oct 15, 20 thats changed with the chromebook pixel and the newer haswellbased chromebooks like the acer c720 and hp chromebook 14. The light weight an excellent battery life makes it an excellent portable computer. The acer c720 is a great notebook but the limited capabilities of chrome os can be daunting at times. Ended up going with debian because of another thread i started in this forum, where i had found another lq person running full debian sid on c720, which convinced me to buy the c720.
Touchpad not working on acer c720 chromebook ubuntu forums. Solved the problem by installing bodhi linux rc1 and updating to ubuntu 14. If you read the article, you can see that the ubuntu install is running in a chroot mode, this means it is running natively on the touchpads hardware without emulation. Part 33 clean installing linux on the acer c720pc720. If you just installed ubuntu on your chromebook, youve probably noticed the touchpad is pretty bad. This flavor of linux is a very minimalist take on an already minimalist platform and will give you an incredibly fast and efficient machine. Please pay attention to the github instructions before running any of the scripts included. Singletap, doubletap, scrolling, and some gestures made my daily grind a little bit less, well. I have no problem developing a fairly sized django python project on it, with a mysql db in the background. Dec 12, 20 michael larabel from phoronix installed ubuntu. I followed the first part of step 5 from the following url to get the touchpad to work. Is there any way to turn off the touchpad on an acer c720. Here you see the fullblown ubuntu unity running on the acer c720.
Thats changed with the chromebook pixel and the newer haswellbased chromebooks like the acer c720 and hp chromebook 14. To enable the touchpad gesture in ubuntu first you need to search mouse in dash boardyou get dash board by pressing windows key. Jul 27, 2014 go to system preferences mouse touchpad and uncheck disable touchpad while typing and enable mouse clicks with touchpad. Guide install windows 8 on the acer c720 acer community. The problem often occurs after upgrading your ubuntu distribution to ubuntu 16. Solved how to upgrade libc6 on acer c720 to get touchpad. I have a lenovo g500 laptop and i recently installed ubuntu 14. Feb 12, 2017 to enable the touchpad gesture in ubuntu first you need to search mouse in dash boardyou get dash board by pressing windows key. This guide has been created for owners of acer c720p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14. Jul 22, 2014 after receiving my c720, i immediately installed crouton, the crouton chrome extension, and built ubuntu linux 14.
Reboot the laptop, pop in an ubuntu bootable and install it. The problem after that is that touchpad stopped working. Performance will therefore be comparable to other arm devices that can run linux. If not, you need to install synaptictouchpad from package manager. Since this is now considered a hardware issue, i have to send it in for repair, for which they are covering the cost. The software can be easily installed from the developers ppa repository. I have two chromebooks the hp chromebook 14 and acer c7102847. It should help you with installation and enabling full hardware support for touch pad and touch panel. How to install ubuntu on your hp touchpad techwarelabs. To install crouton the easy way, all you need to do is run the command below.
Any advice on getting this thing working would be greatly appreciated. This page is based off the c720 page and will be slowly updated and corrected over the summer of 2014. The performance overall though of this lowcost chromebook continues to be admirable and works great with linux sans the touchpad issues. With the appropriate tweaks and powersavings, you should be able to achieve battery life comparable or better than that of chromeos especially if you intend to use the chromebook offline.
Run synaptic, reload, search for linuximagegalliumos, mark it for installation, apply. The install went easily and required no special steps with having already enabling the legacy seabios mode on the lightweight, lowpower laptop. I did that and the touchpad still remained unresponsive. How to install ubuntu linux on your chromebook with crouton. Variations of the model include a touchscreen version with an i3 and 4gb of ram.
For this to work we need to first install new firmware to. In this tip, we will see a solution that will fix a nonworking laptops touchpad. This guide has been created for owners of acer c720 p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14. You will not have touchpanel or touchpad after the boot so either be very savy with your keyboardfu or get a usb mouse ready. Everything worked well accept the touchpad it just stays there unresponsive. If youre not using the 32 bit version of ubuntu 14. The touchpad itself works, but the scrolling is not, neither is is it configurable as a touchpad. Sep 14, 2011 if you read the article, you can see that the ubuntu install is running in a chroot mode, this means it is running natively on the touchpads hardware without emulation. As i wrote two years ago, i started by replacing chromeos with hugegreenbugs port of ubuntu 14. Jul 10, 2014 specifically these tips were from setting up crouton with ubuntu with the unity desktop environment on trusty 14.
Tweak your touchpad to taste in linux techrepublic. Chrubuntu is no longer maintained after 2014 and fails to install ubuntu 15. Quickly enabledisable laptop touchpad with touchpad. Step 3 how to install ubuntu chrubuntu on acer c7 chromebook. Firstly it wasnt succesful because of the lack of the free space on disk, but later ive finished with it. No worries this video will show you how to fix that touchpad commands. Posted by john lewis august 8, 2014 january 3, 2018 16 comments on making the touchpad work on a hp pavilion chromebook in ubuntu 14. Go to system preferences mouse touchpad and uncheck disable touchpad while typing and enable mouse clicks with touchpad.
The subreddit survives for general linuxonchromebook support, including chrx which replaces chrubuntu for all intel chromeos devices. Touchpadindicator is a small indicator provides quickly enable and disable touchpad functionality in ubuntu laptop and netbook. Aug 08, 2014 posted by john lewis august 8, 2014 january 3, 2018 16 comments on making the touchpad work on a hp pavilion chromebook in ubuntu 14. It is now a valuable resource for people who want to make the most of their mobile devices, from customizing the look and feel to adding new functionality. All benchmarking was handled via the phoronix test suite software for.
Acer c720 chromebook hardware ubuntu mate community. Trackpad stopped working after ubuntu update acer c720. Btw debian sid is the socalled unstable debian all the latest software, but not always reliable. Galliumos lightweight linux for chromebooks hacker news. After receiving my c720, i immediately installed crouton, the crouton chrome extension, and built ubuntu linux 14. Although the combination of the c720 and ubuntu 14. Mar 30, 20 if you just installed ubuntu on your chromebook, youve probably noticed the touchpad is pretty bad. Dec 06, 2014 fix for elantech touchpad on ubuntu 14.
Each of these models supports booting from a more traditional pc bios mode which makes it simple to use stock ubuntu kernels on them. The first support agent suggested reinstalling the chrome os. Alps touchpad is a pointing device found on some dell and acer notebooks similar to synapticstouchpad control touchpad features using synclient. This installs crouton with the xfce desktop and an encrypted chroot for security.
For this to work we need to first install new firmware to make the chromebook boot into other operating systems. You can use the chrome os cmt touchpad driver instead of the default. Feb 07, 2015 gedit is not installed by default in lubuntu 14. Some of the built on ubuntu variant will be running on versions which will be out of support in the near future.
I didnt remove chromeos since it works flawlessly for some purposes. At this point, running uname r in terminal returns 3. I have a asus x556u laptop that is having issues with the touchpad. You will not have touchpanel or touchpad after the boot so either be very savy with your keyboardfu or get a usb mouse. According to the arch wiki, the touchpad support for chromebooks was added in linux kernel 3. The actual installation process will take some time as the appropriate software is downloaded and installedit took about half an hour on our. It is written by lorenzo carbonell and only supported in ubuntu 10. Two years ago i wrote a note of thanks as i switched my disposable travel laptop from an asus seashell to an acer c720 chromebook running linux. I contacted support again, and they said that reinstalling the os would have fixed any software issues. Feb 01, 2017 this guide has been created for owners of acer c720p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14. Alps touchpad configuration could be made through synaptics driver utility synclient found in the gsynaptics package. Scripts to fix thinkpad touchpad issues on ubuntu omg.
I ran ubuntu in live mode before installation and the touchpad worked perfectly fine. Acer c720 acers c270 is a cheap and popular 11inch chromebook with an 1. Note that the touchpad on the recent chromebooks wont work in live cd mode, you will have to use a mouse. But with hp discontinuing the touchpad and all webos sm. In the next months i will switch to arch or nix or void to have more recent versions and i may try to port pantheon on them. I intalled ubuntu using the keyboard on my laptop,but still had the same problem i tried all the mouse settings and it is still unresponsive. Each of these models supports booting from a more traditional pc bios. Im still not used to the much bigger touch pad, and keep accidentally.
It turns out he acer chromebook 14 that costco is selling is specifically acer chromebook 14 cb3431 edgar and you can see from the compatibility list that it should work. Guide with files to get acer c720p operational with ubuntu 14. Specifically these tips were from setting up crouton with ubuntu with the unity desktop environment on trusty 14. The problem is that the touchpad in not being dectected. It seems the system recognizes it as a mouse instead of synps2 synaptics touchpad.
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