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I have upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 (I had 14.04 installed). Since then, my touchpad does not respond. When I use a mouse it works perfectly.

My laptop is a Packard Bell

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  • i did : sudo apt-get --purge autoremove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics then sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics nothing seems to change. then when i write "synclient -l" the answer is "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
    – Amor Khlifi
    Nov 30, 2017 at 10:33
  • And when i write "xinput list" it returns ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer:13 id=7 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13 id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13 id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    – Amor Khlifi
    Nov 30, 2017 at 10:33
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    Please edit your question and give the exact model of your laptop and add the xinput output there. We can't read it in the comments
    – Zanna ♦
    Nov 30, 2017 at 10:36

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Are you sure you haven't disabled the touchpad on your keyboard? It is toggled by (Fn)+F6 on my Packard-Bell laptop.

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  • I am sure yes. I tried (Fn+F6) right now twice and nothing changes. Thanks for reponding
    – Amor Khlifi
    Nov 30, 2017 at 10:35
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It appears to be another Wayland problem. If I run 17.10 on Wayland on my Packard-Bell EasyNote laptop the touchpad is unresponsive but running 17.10 on Xorg the touchpad works perfectly.

When I boot into GDM I get the choice of Ubuntu (which is on Wayland) and Ubuntu on Xorg. If you have the same menu I suggest you use Ubuntu on Xorg as a workaround for the time being.

I will report the bug.

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