Christopher, I am not 100% sure what a backport is but to try to answer your question, the touchpad stopped being recognised correctly after upgrading to 13.10 (and the scrolling stopped working correctly too). It was recognised correctly and functioned correctly in 13.04 and many previous releases going back several years.
I hope that sufficiently answers your question but if you need any further information please let me know and I will answer quickly. The problem as originally reported still exists. Nothing has changed. I would really like this issue to remain "open" until it is fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1254092 Title: Touchpad not recognised on Acer Aspire 5720 after upgrade to 13.10 Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After upgrading from ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 the touchpad on my Acer Aspire 5720 laptop is no longer recognised by the kernel. Running xinput I get: ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ MCE IR Keyboard/Mouse (ene_ir) id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Acer Crystal Eye webcam id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ENE eHome Infrared Remote Receiver id=14 [slave keyboard (3)] System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad only shows settings for mice (no touchpad settings present). Using Google I see various other reports of the same problem on different laptops and the consensus is that it is a problem with the kernel NOT with synaptics. ***The Acer Aspire 5720 has three physical buttons below the touchpad*** - Left, Right, and a middle 4-way button, which has previously always worked for scrolling up/down/left/right. Only up and down works but it only "scrolls" up or down one line at a time (no continuous scrolling by holding the up/down button down). I have managed to get a partial fix by adding "options psmouse proto=imps" to /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf and then running: sudo modprobe -r psmouse sudo modprobe psmouse That gets the physical middle button scrolling up/down working correctly but still no left/right scroll and no way to turn off touchpad tap to click (Grrr! Grrr! and thrice Grrr!) Help! --- ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: i386 DistUpgraded: 2013-10-18 16:47:07,834 DEBUG enabling apt cron job DistroCodename: saucy DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 DistroVariant: ubuntu InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-14 (770 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MachineType: Acer Aspire 5720 MarkForUpload: True Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.7.1-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/51-synaptics-quirks.conf] PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-13-generic root=UUID=2da6d337-44c6-4370-8808-47a269485bc3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6 Tags: saucy ubuntu Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (35 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin lpadmin sambashare dmi.bios.date: 11/10/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Acer dmi.bios.version: V1.45 dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag dmi.board.name: eMachine dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: V1.45 dmi.chassis.type: 1 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: V1.45 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV1.45:bd11/10/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5720:pvrV1.45:rvnAcer:rneMachine:rvrV1.45:cvnAcer:ct1:cvrV1.45: dmi.product.name: Aspire 5720 dmi.product.version: V1.45 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.46-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.2.1-1ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu3.1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.2.0-0ubuntu10 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.904-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.9-2ubuntu1 xserver.bootTime: Fri Nov 22 17:46:12 2013 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.outputs: product id 14661 vendor SEC xserver.version: 2:1.14.3-3ubuntu2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1254092/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
