Hi Edwin, The starting point for diagnosing the problem is to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. This shows what happened the last time you started X. There should be lines about all devices, for example: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall" The external mouse will be in the log also, so you can see what sort of information is logged.
Hopefully there will be some helpful error messages. With my install of Kubuntu 11.10 on a thinkpad everything just worked without installing any extra packages, or modifying grub parameters. Regards, Peter On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:45:53 AM Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > I'm wondering whether anyone has had success at resolving Ubuntu > touchpad issues? My daughter and I both have dual-boot (Win7 64/Ubuntu > 11.10 64) laptops; mine is an Acer Travelmate 5740 and hers a Fujitsu > Lifebook S6410. the Acer has a Synaptic PS/2 touchpad, and the Fujitsu a > "Microsoft" PS/2 touchpad. > > I can go into some detail on my case - her laptop's not here, but I'm > hoping the fix will sort hers out as well. > > A USB wireless mouse plugged in to the Acer works fine; however nothing > on the touchpad works. > > The "Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server" is installed and after > installing tpconfig the Touchpad tab is present under Mouse and Touchpad > settings. I installed "gpointing-device-settings", which also recognises > the device and provides for its configuration. But neither actually do > anything. > > I've added 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"' to the grub conf, and the > touchpad works at the login screen, so I'm assuming it's something > associated with X, but I'm very inexpert in even understanding X, let > alone debugging it, so: does anyone have ideas? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
