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Today the updated informed me that there are udpates and a new version of Kubuntu. After installing the updates and pressing "Quit" the updater began upgrading to 13.04 (?!?!?!). Anyway, after the upgrade the touchpad is not working any more.

I tried to install driver for touchpad using suggestions from this forum and ended up with this error during DKMS install:
DKMS make.log for psmouse-alps-dst-0.4 for kernel 3.8.0-19-generic (x86_64)
пт апр 26 11:10:50 EEST 2013
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic'
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.o
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.c: In function ‘__check_smartscroll’:
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/psmouse-base.c:64:1: warning: return from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.o
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c: In function ‘set_input_params’:
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:1153:3: error: too few arguments to function ‘input_mt_init_slots’
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:29:0:
include/linux/input/mt.h:78:5: note: declared here
/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:1165:3: error: too few arguments to function ‘input_mt_init_slots’
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.c:29:0:
include/linux/input/mt.h:78:5: note: declared here
make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/psmouse/alps-dst-0.4/build/src/synaptics.o] Error 1
make: *** [psmouse.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic'

I also came upon this topic and found it was closed (so not very useful)...

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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  • 'make'? Didn't you just try sudo apt-get install dkms in Terminal? In any case, a duplicate is here: askubuntu.com/questions/279375/… and it seems like there is no workaround sorry. I would recommend getting a graphics tablet or an optical mouse or seeing if reverting back to Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS helps.
    – Ads20000
    Apr 26, 2013 at 8:56
  • Try this askubuntu.com/a/211755/15943
    – alfC
    Apr 27, 2013 at 3:29

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you can try this solution, it works for me.

http://www.linuxwind.org/html/dell-touchpad-driver-for-ubuntu-13-04.html

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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
    – Aditya
    Apr 28, 2013 at 7:10

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