Hot answers tagged touchpad
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I seem to have a similar if not the same problem on a Dell Latitude E5510. I did install from a USB flash drive created from the .ISO file using Unetbootin.
When I created an install USB drive using Unetbootin and then proceeded to use it to install Ubuntu 13.04 I encountered the same problem e.g. no mouse, trackpad, etc. It appears that Unetbootin can't ...
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as it saying you need to do the procedure as root user. simple add sudo. In Ubuntu to install anything you must be a root user.
I mean
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gpointing-device-settings
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings
then you will have it installed .
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You should reinstall the driver for touchpad.
First, delete your old dkms module, using terminal:
cd /var/lib/dkms/psmouse/
rm -rf alps-dst-0.4
Download the new driver fom here.
Install it, following next commands in terminal:
tar xvf psmouse-alps-1.3-alt.tbz
cp -afr usr/src/psmouse-alps-1.3/ /usr/src/
dkms add psmouse/alps-1.3
dkms autoinstall
rmmod ...
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You need to put the settings in a xorg.conf file as follows:
sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-synaptics-options.conf
In the new file, type
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "RTCornerButton" "0"
EndSection
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After many hours, I found it!
Open terminal and enter:
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
Find the line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
and change it to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.dumbkbd=1 acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
Then enter in terminal:
sudo update-grub
That will also solve the ...
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After making several suggested changes, many of which didn't work. I am very new to Linux and Ubuntu 12.10, I ran across this post, No "Touchpad Tab" under Mouse and Touchpad settings. Detected as PS/2 Generic Mouse
The statement entered into terminal as:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
worked. My trackpad is now completely disabled and I am so glad!
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I have connected USB mouse to my laptop, because of I am not comfortable with Laptop touch pad. While typing in this setup, I used to touch Touchpad unintentionally. This was changing the typing cursor to some other position. For this the below fix works for me.
%synclient TouchpadOff=1
This command turn off the Touchpad. To enable it again I used below ...
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