bradleyaroth, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
better.
As per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-
support/product/inspiron-15--laptop/drivers?os=biosa an update to
your computer's buggy, insecure, and outdated BIOS is available (A11).
When you update to this following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate how does this improve the
situation?
For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.
Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful.
Also, you don't have to create a new bug report.
Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible:
1) Please provide the output of the following terminal command (not perform an
apport-collect):
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
2) Please make a comment specifically advising on if there was an improvement
or not.
3) Please mark this report Status New.
If it's not reproducible, please mark this as Invalid.
Thank you for your help.
** Tags added: bios-outdated-a11
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1590393
Title:
Synaptics touchpad discontinues function after login
Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
After starting the laptop the touchpad works for about 20-30 seconds
after login. Am only able to utilize external USB mouse for functional
control over the pointer. This is a fresh install (not upgrade) to the
new LTS 16.04, Touchpad was working correctly with the last LTS 14.04.
Unloading and reloading the mouse does nothing.
$ lsb_release -rd
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
Installed: 0.83
Candidate: 0.83
Version table:
*** 0.83 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I created scripts to dump all relevant data while the touchpad was
working as well as after it stopped working. Below are the scripts I
ran, I have attached their outputs.
#!/bin/bash
cat /proc/bus/input/devices > ~/devices
dmesg > ~/dmesg_boot
cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Xorg.0.log
#!/bin/bash
LANG=C
dmesg > ~/dmesg
diff -ns ~/dmesg_boot ~/dmesg > ~/dmesg_diff
cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Xorg.0.log_tmp
diff -ns ~/Xorg.0.log ~/Xorg.0.log_tmp > ~/Xorg.0.log_diff
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Wed Jun 8 05:46:49 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: virtualbox-guest, 5.0.18, 4.4.0-22-generic, x86_64: installed
(WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!) (WARNING! Diff between
built and installed module!) (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev c5) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Dell Carrizo [1028:06bd]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-08 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Linux Lite 3.0 - Release amd64
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-22-generic
root=UUID=cdee5904-960c-4b97-91bb-66e57752f697 ro i8042.noloop quiet splash
vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/27/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0CHHXW
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A08
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd08/27/2015:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron:pvrA08:rvnDellInc.:rn0CHHXW:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA08:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron
dmi.product.version: A08
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160526-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2
