044e:1218 — Electric Touchpad
Alps Electric Co., Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 044e
- Product ID
- 1218
- Combined
- 044e:1218
- Decimal
- 1102:4632
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Electric Touchpad manufactured by Alps Electric Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 044e is registered to Alps Electric Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1218 is the product ID that Alps Electric Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 044e:1218 Alps Electric Co., Ltd Electric Touchpad.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 044e:1218 Alps Electric Co., Ltd Electric Touchpad
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 044e:1218, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 044e:1218. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=044e, idProduct=1218.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_044E&PID_1218 USB\VID_044E&PID_1218&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_044E&PID_1218"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Electric Touchpad:
Product ID: 0x1218
Vendor ID: 0x044e (Alps Electric Co., Ltd)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
044e Alps Electric Co., Ltd 1218 Electric Touchpad