[Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

> Grub had somehow been changed to disable ACPI. Enabling that solved the problem. Imagine how great it would have been if you had mentioned how did exactly you did that (enabling ACPI in grub)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764040

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Hi, This is now solved. Grub had somehow been changed to disable ACPI. Enabling that solved the problem. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Dave On 27 April 2018 at 15:55, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > You can also try other i8042 parameters: > >

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

You can also try other i8042 parameters: i8042.unmask_kbd_data [HW] Enable printing of interrupt data from the KBD port (disabled by default, and as a pre-condition requires that i8042.debug=1 be

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Hi, No luck. Still no touchpad :( I was going to do a clean install of 18.04. Is this an idea? Cheers On 25 April 2018 at 20:17, Kai-Heng Feng wrote: > Please try if kernel parameter "i8042.noloop=1" works for you. > > -- > You received this bug notification

[Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Please try if kernel parameter "i8042.noloop=1" works for you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764040 Title: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected To manage notifications about this bug

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Hi Joseph, No luck... Still not working. Updated via UKUU. I have attached the screenshot showing the kernel version plus the list of input devices. Cheers, Dave PS why doesn't the wiki suggest using UKUU to install upstream kernels? So much easier to do. dave@dave-laptop:~$ cat

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Hi Joseph, Moved this to a new directory and tried again: See below. Cheers, Dave dave@dave-laptop:~$ cd Test dave@dave-laptop:~/Test$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb [sudo] password for dave: (Reading database ... 240669 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack

Re: [Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Hi Joseph, Sorry I couldn't get this to install. Here's the output of the terminal. Cheers, Dave dave@dave-laptop:~$ cd Downloads dave@dave-laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb [sudo] password for dave: dpkg: warning: downgrading cba:i386 from 0.3.6-4 to 0.3.6-1 (Reading database ... 240669

[Bug 1764040] Re: Synaptics Touchpad not Detected

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.16 kernel[0]. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'. If the mainline kernel does not fix