Public bug reported:
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!
** Affects: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: acer aspire kernel-bug touchpad
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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:
New
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!
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