This has been a thorn in my side for quite a while with ANY flavor of Linux I try installing on this laptop. It's an HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-ec0013dx. Pretty much everything installs fine on the laptop EXCEPT the touchpad. I've gone through the tests I've seen on other sites and the pad is detected. I try editing GRUB and that also doesn't work. What DOES work, which seems odd, is if I go into my Boot Manager to choose what drive/partition to boot from and choose the locally installed Zorin, it boots and the touchpad works without a hitch. But I have to go through the boot manager every time I want to use the touch pad, otherwise if it boots straight to GRUB I have to plug in a mouse.
It's like there's something goofy with UEFI but I haven't been able to pin down a solution. Anyone have any ideas?
Two things, one is 99% of touchpads and ig keyboards feed off of the usb chipset.
Check your bios for legacy USB mode, and enable that. This is also useful for a usb keyboard that is not detected on initial boot.
Do you have secure boot enabled? It is not usually required for linux (it is a windows things) outside of dual booting with windows, but secure boot does sign different hardware and can cause odd behavior with integrated devices especially known for graphics.
@337harvey: I think I did the alongside method but chose to install on a completely different hard drive (as this laptop has two bays for drives), so it was a different partition.
I don't recall if I have/had secure boot enabled.
Thanks for the responses! I'll give your suggestions a check to see what I can see.