Tested only on laptop Asus ZenBook UP5401EA with type of numpad layout m433ia and backglight without levels (only enable/disable) and system Elementary OS 6.1 Loki.
| Without % = symbols | With % = symbols | With % = symbols (but incompatible with the non-universal version) |
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| Model/Layout = ux433fa | Model/Layout = m433ia | Model/Layout = ux581l |
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- (Enable/disable backglight of numpad with activation)
- (Multi tap support up to quint tap)
- (Configurable support of all levels of backlight)
- (Configurable support of touchpad left button - usable when is numpad deactivated and during activation when device has no levels of backlight)
Install required packages
- Debian / Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Pop!_OS / Zorin OS:
sudo apt install libevdev2 python3-libevdev i2c-tools git
- Arch Linux / Manjaro:
sudo pacman -S libevdev python-libevdev i2c-tools git
- Fedora:
sudo dnf install libevdev python-libevdev i2c-tools git
Then enable i2c
sudo modprobe i2c-dev
sudo i2cdetect -l
Now you can get the latest ASUS Touchpad Numpad Driver for Linux from Git and install it using the following commands.
git clone https://github.com/ldrahnik/asus-touchpad-numpad-driver
cd asus-touchpad-numpad-driver
sudo ./install.sh
To turn on/off numpad, tap top right corner touchpad area. To adjust numpad brightness, tap top left corner touchpad area.
To uninstall, just run:
sudo ./uninstall.sh
Troubleshooting
To activate logger, do in a console:
LOG=DEBUG sudo -E ./asus_touchpad.py
For some operating systems with boot failure (Pop!OS, Mint, ElementaryOS, SolusOS), before installing, please uncomment in the asus_touchpad.service file, this following property and adjust its value:
# ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 2
Thank you very much github.com/mohamed-badaoui and all the contributors of asus-touchpad-numpad-driver for your work.
Thank you who-t for great post about multitouch Understanding evdev.
During debugging rebember to disable service / uninstall already installed version of driver
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[python service, first initialization] https://gitlab.com/Thraen/gx735_touchpad_numpad
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[python service] https://github.com/danahynes/Asus_L410M_Numpad inspired by [python service, first initialization] https://gitlab.com/Thraen/gx735_touchpad_numpad
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[python service, configurable, the most spread repository] https://github.com/mohamed-badaoui/asus-touchpad-numpad-driver inspired by [python service] https://gitlab.com/Thraen/gx735_touchpad_numpad
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[c++ and meson] https://github.com/xytovl/asus-numpad inspired by/rewritten version of [python service, configurable, the most spread repository] https://github.com/mohamed-badaoui/asus-touchpad-numpad-driver
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[python service] This project with continuing work based on [python service, configurable, the most spread repository] https://github.com/mohamed-badaoui/asus-touchpad-numpad-driver
Why was this project created? As repository where i can implement Configurable support of all levels of backlight and Multi tap support up to quint tap.