I just bought a new Acer Aspire V 15 Nitro computer with a pre-installed Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu so I can run dual-boot. Everything works fine now except my touch-pad that isn't working in Ubuntu but works fine when i boot into Windows. And when i'm in Ubuntu my USB mouse works fine aswell.
cat /proc/bus/input/devices
This command does not show any SynPS/2 or anything.
When i run
xinput --list
Under the Virtual core pointer there is only one
Virtual core XTEST pointer
Logitec USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse
and then there is a empty slot where I think my touch-pad should be.
In my system settings I can see the touch-pad and turn it on/off but nothing happens. I also installed Touch-pad indicator but nothing happens aswell.
EDIT
When I run
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics
[ 4.362] (**) : Applying InputClass "enable synaptics SHMConfig"
[ 4.362] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
[ 4.362] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
[ 4.362] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 4.362] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for ' '
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : x-axis range 0 - 1236 (res 12)
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : y-axis range 0 - 898 (res 12)
[ 4.388] (II) synaptics: : device does not report pressure, will use touch data.
[ 4.388] (II) synaptics: : device does not report finger width.
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : buttons: left double triple
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : Vendor 0x6cb Product 0x2970
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : invalid pressure range. defaulting to 0 - 255
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : invalid finger width range. defaulting to 0 - 15
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : touchpad found
[ 4.404] (**) synaptics: : (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5
[ 4.404] (**) synaptics: : (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75
[ 4.404] (**) synaptics: : (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.131
[ 4.404] (--) synaptics: : touchpad found
After running
grep -i touchpad /var/log/Xorg.0.log
the output is
[ 4.362] (**) : Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
[ 4.362] (**) : Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
[ 4.388] (--) synaptics: : touchpad found
[ 4.404] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device " " (type: TOUCHPAD, id 12)
[ 4.404] (--) synaptics: : touchpad found
[ 4.404] (**) : Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates"
but when i run
xinput -list
there is nothing with id 12
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
I'm new to Ubuntu so be kind, but I would love some help. And sorry for my English.
dmesg | grep psmouse
. Is 'psmouse' driver actually running? This can be delayed (for reasons unknown) for up to 8-10 minutes. Something to do with power-saving and Windows. Are you also running Windows on the PC, or have you recently?