Everything worked well accept the touchpad it just stays there unresponsive. The light weight an excellent battery life makes it an excellent portable computer. Trackpad stopped working after ubuntu update acer c720. Dec 12, 20 michael larabel from phoronix installed ubuntu. This subreddit was originally created to support chrubuntu, the original dualboot installer written by jay lee. How do i fix my touchpad on my acer 720 chromebook ask ubuntu. This flavor of linux is a very minimalist take on an already minimalist platform and will give you an incredibly fast and efficient machine. Specifically these tips were from setting up crouton with ubuntu with the unity desktop environment on trusty 14. As i wrote two years ago, i started by replacing chromeos with hugegreenbugs port of ubuntu 14. To install crouton the easy way, all you need to do is run the command below. Tweak your touchpad to taste in linux techrepublic.
You can use the chrome os cmt touchpad driver instead of the default. Part 33 clean installing linux on the acer c720pc720. I have a lenovo g500 laptop and i recently installed ubuntu 14. If not, you need to install synaptictouchpad from package manager. The actual installation process will take some time as the appropriate software is downloaded and installedit took about half an hour on our. Thats changed with the chromebook pixel and the newer haswellbased chromebooks like the acer c720 and hp chromebook 14. Solved how to upgrade libc6 on acer c720 to get touchpad. Minecraft on the acer c720 chromebook im a doctor, not a. It should help you with installation and enabling full hardware support for touch pad and touch panel. This page is based off the c720 page and will be slowly updated and corrected over the summer of 2014. Step 3 how to install ubuntu chrubuntu on acer c7 chromebook. Please pay attention to the github instructions before running any of the scripts included.
You will not have touchpanel or touchpad after the boot so either be very savy with your keyboardfu or get a usb mouse. If this piques your interest, look up crouton chromebook in a browser to learn more about it and how to install it. Singletap, doubletap, scrolling, and some gestures made my daily grind a little bit less, well. The problem after that is that touchpad stopped working.
At this point, running uname r in terminal returns 3. Any advice on getting this thing working would be greatly appreciated. Variations of the model include a touchscreen version with an i3 and 4gb of ram. 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. It seems the system recognizes it as a mouse instead of synps2 synaptics touchpad. Reboot the laptop, pop in an ubuntu bootable and install it. The software can be easily installed from the developers ppa repository. Note that the touchpad on the recent chromebooks wont work in live cd mode, you will have to use a mouse.
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. Solved the problem by installing bodhi linux rc1 and updating to ubuntu 14. I have two chromebooks the hp chromebook 14 and acer c7102847. How to install ubuntu linux on your chromebook with crouton. Installing ubuntu on the acer chromebook 14 toy theory. Touchpad not working on acer c720 chromebook ubuntu forums. I contacted support again, and they said that reinstalling the os would have fixed any software issues. Some systems dont have the option to permanently disable the touchpad via bios or its located in an external keyboard. All benchmarking was handled via the phoronix test suite software for. I followed the first part of step 5 from the following url to get the touchpad to work. Chrubuntu is no longer maintained after 2014 and fails to install ubuntu 15.
After receiving my c720, i immediately installed crouton, the crouton chrome extension, and built ubuntu linux 14. To enable the touchpad gesture in ubuntu first you need to search mouse in dash boardyou get dash board by pressing windows key. 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. You will not have touchpanel or touchpad after the boot so either be very savy with your keyboardfu or get a usb mouse ready. Oct 15, 20 thats changed with the chromebook pixel and the newer haswellbased chromebooks like the acer c720 and hp chromebook 14. For this to work we need to first install new firmware to. Alps touchpad configuration could be made through synaptics driver utility synclient found in the gsynaptics package. I have a asus x556u laptop that is having issues with the touchpad. I ran ubuntu in live mode before installation and the touchpad worked perfectly fine. I have no problem developing a fairly sized django python project on it, with a mysql db in the background. This guide has been created for owners of acer c720p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14.
Go to system preferences mouse touchpad and uncheck disable touchpad while typing and enable mouse clicks with touchpad. Jul 22, 2014 after receiving my c720, i immediately installed crouton, the crouton chrome extension, and built ubuntu linux 14. Some of the built on ubuntu variant will be running on versions which will be out of support in the near future. Jul 10, 2014 specifically these tips were from setting up crouton with ubuntu with the unity desktop environment on trusty 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. Guide install windows 8 on the acer c720 acer community. The problem is that the touchpad in not being dectected. Alps touchpad is a pointing device found on some dell and acer notebooks similar to synapticstouchpad control touchpad features using synclient. Feb 01, 2017 this guide has been created for owners of acer c720p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14. Acer c720 chromebook hardware ubuntu mate community. How to install ubuntu on your hp touchpad techwarelabs. For this to work we need to first install new firmware to make the chromebook boot into other operating systems. If youre not using the 32 bit version of ubuntu 14. Since i started chrubuntu back in december of 2010, its always been necessary to utilize the chrome os linux kernel with ubuntu in order to solve some compatibility issues with the chromebook architecture.
Mar 30, 20 if you just installed ubuntu on your chromebook, youve probably noticed the touchpad is pretty bad. Run synaptic, reload, search for linuximagegalliumos, mark it for installation, apply. The touchpad itself works, but the scrolling is not, neither is is it configurable as a touchpad. The acer c720 is a great notebook but the limited capabilities of chrome os can be daunting at times. Here is a way to install windows 8 for those who do not have a spare machine. The subreddit survives for general linuxonchromebook support, including chrx which replaces chrubuntu for all intel chromeos devices. Making the touchpad work on a hp pavilion chromebook in. Tory johnson, gma workplace contributor, discusses workfromhome jobs, such as justanswer in which verified experts answer peoples questions. But with hp discontinuing the touchpad and all webos sm. The problem often occurs after upgrading your ubuntu distribution to ubuntu 16. Since this is now considered a hardware issue, i have to send it in for repair, for which they are covering the cost. 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. Quickly enabledisable laptop touchpad with touchpad.
Dec 06, 2014 fix for elantech touchpad on ubuntu 14. The install went easily and required no special steps with having already enabling the legacy seabios mode on the lightweight, lowpower laptop. 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. If you just installed ubuntu on your chromebook, youve probably noticed the touchpad is pretty bad. Jul 27, 2014 go to system preferences mouse touchpad and uncheck disable touchpad while typing and enable mouse clicks with touchpad. I didnt remove chromeos since it works flawlessly for some purposes. Scripts to fix thinkpad touchpad issues on ubuntu omg. Feb 07, 2015 gedit is not installed by default in lubuntu 14. According to the arch wiki, the touchpad support for chromebooks was added in linux kernel 3. Galliumos lightweight linux for chromebooks hacker news.
It is written by lorenzo carbonell and only supported in ubuntu 10. In this tip, we will see a solution that will fix a nonworking laptops touchpad. Acer c720 acers c270 is a cheap and popular 11inch chromebook with an 1. Touchpadindicator is a small indicator provides quickly enable and disable touchpad functionality in ubuntu laptop and netbook. Performance will therefore be comparable to other arm devices that can run linux. 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. Each of these models supports booting from a more traditional pc bios. 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. 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.
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. Each of these models supports booting from a more traditional pc bios mode which makes it simple to use stock ubuntu kernels on them. Guide with files to get acer c720p operational with ubuntu 14. This installs crouton with the xfce desktop and an encrypted chroot for security. This guide has been created for owners of acer c720 p chromebook that would like to replace chromeos with native ubuntu 14.
Here you see the fullblown ubuntu unity running on the acer c720. 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. Although the combination of the c720 and ubuntu 14. Is there any way to turn off the touchpad on an acer c720. I did that and the touchpad still remained unresponsive. The first support agent suggested reinstalling the chrome os.