Hello, I cannot figure out whether I have an Elan touchpad, Synaptics touchpad, or another different touchpad.
I have tried to search the hardware IDs listed in the HID-Compliant touch pad on Google, but got nowhere.
How can I find the vendor of my touchpad? I’m rather confused as the touch screen device had “VEN_ELAN”, but the touch pad device says “HID\VEN_GXTP&DEV_7863&Col02”.
As always, model of chromebook is Brya Crota360 (Dell Latitude 5430 Chromebook 2-in-1).
why do you think you need to know the manufacturer?
CROTA has an Elan Touchscreen (ELAN900C) and either an Elan (ELAN0000) or Goodix (GTXP7863) touchpad. The firmware probes each device and boot and only enumerates the ones that are actually present.
the Goodix touchpad is an I2C-HID device, it uses a standard I2C-HID driver, not a custom one. The Elan touchscreen is likewise an I2C-HID device. So the two entries in your Device Manager are correct.
For most peripheral devices, the Hardware IDs property isn’t the most informative one, it’s the ‘BIOS device name’ property.
Would it be at all worth it to replace the Goodix touchpad with an Elan touchpad, or is there no difference?
I don’t know why you’d even consider it, the two are essentially identical parts
Alright, thank you. I hadn’t known if there were any differences between the two or not.
