The touchscreen is powered by an Elantech chip connected via HID-over-i2c. Then, reboot and select the new kernel and your touchpad should show up. The keyboard and touchpad are located on a separate, removable slab called. These will end up in your Downloads directory, so just open up a terminal there and type the following: sudo dpkg -i lin*4.5.7*.debĪnd follow up with rebuilding the grub bootloader sudo update-grub TouchPad Driver (Synaptics, Elantech) for Microsoft Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Lenovo G460, G560 Individual Downloads Operating System Version Released Size Severity Download setp01183264.exe TouchPad Driver (Synaptics, Elantech) Checksum Windows 8 (32-bit) Windows 8 (64-bit) 16.2.5.0/11.4.3. You can find the latest kernels for Ubuntu at įor example, to upgrade to 4.5.7, you would go to the ubuntu kernels link above and click into Even though Linux kernels go all the way to 4.10 as of this writing, I like to trail the edge of technology, so if you just go to 4.5, you should be good.

Linux kernels below 4.5 don't have the drivers for this touchpad, so all you have to do is upgrade your kernel. I have the same touchpad on an ASUS laptop.

Elantech touchpad software