The touchpad didn't work at all when I performed an identical reinstall: flashdrive iso of 14.04.1 LTS, checked boxes for updates and 3rd party software.
It's a brand new laptop. -- 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/1366637 Title: Synaptics' Precision Touchpad misdected as PS/2 Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64-bit) version 1.7.4-0ubuntu1 It's an Acer Aspire E 11 (E3-111-C0WA), which should have Synaptics' "Microsoft Precision TouchPad". September 5th: The touchpad worked upon installation, but lost all functionality after I installed the updates and rebooted. I updated gpointing-device-settings through Synaptic. Although I recall that this wasn't always so, currently there are touchpad settings in Mouse & Touchpad, but still no functionality. cat /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=01b1 N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" P: Phys=isa0060/serio2/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input10 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 B: PROP=5 B: EV=b B: KEY=e520 610000 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=660800011000003 The terminal gives no response to cat /proc/bus/input/devices > ~/devices xinput --list SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)] cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics [ 16.692] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event5) [ 16.692] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall" [ 16.693] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall" [ 16.693] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons" [ 16.693] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" [ 16.693] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so [ 16.693] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 16.693] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' [ 16.693] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events [ 16.712] (II) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: found clickpad property [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1472 - 5662 (res 0) [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 1408 - 4728 (res 0) [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255 [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15 [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left double triple [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7 [ 16.712] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found [ 16.712] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events [ 16.732] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 12) [ 16.732] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5 [ 16.732] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75 [ 16.732] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.037 [ 16.732] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 16.732] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1 [ 16.732] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 16.732] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 16.732] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found [ 16.733] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 16.733] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/1366637/+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
