Dell Inspiron 7347 - Inactive cursor with my touchpad on UBUNTU 14.04
After installing Ubuntu 14.04, my touchpad became inactive. Everything works fine on Windows 8, but in Ubuntu it does not respond.
I have tried the following command, but the problem persists :(.
synclient touchpadOff=0
sudo apt-get update
-- (this works fine)
sudo apt-get install wget gdebi wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/synaptiks/kde-config-touchpad_0.8.1-2_all.deb
-- ((this does not work- could not find package by regex...))
Any help is appreciated.
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Genius Optical Mouse id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ELAN Touchscreen Pen id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DLL0674:00 06CB:75DB id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
Output from xinput list-props 16:
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (135): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (137): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (259): 1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (260): 2.500000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (261): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (262): 12.500000
Synaptics Edges (293): 1765, 5371, 1638, 4474
Synaptics Finger (294): 25, 30, 0
Synaptics Tap Time (295): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (296): 234
Synaptics Tap Durations (297): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics ClickPad (298): 1
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (299): 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (300): 282
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (301): 7
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (302): -106, -106
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (303): 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (304): 1, 1
Synaptics Move Speed (305): 1.000000, 1.750000, 0.037509, 0.000000
Synaptics Off (306): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags (307): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (308): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (309): 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0
Synaptics Click Action (310): 1, 3, 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (311): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance (312): 0.100000
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (313): 0
Synaptics Circular Pad (314): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (315): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (316): 10, 200
Synaptics Coasting Speed (317): 20.000000, 50.000000
Synaptics Pressure Motion (318): 30, 160
Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor (319): 1.000000, 1.000000
Synaptics Resolution Detect (320): 1
Synaptics Grab Event Device (321): 1
Synaptics Gestures (322): 1
Synaptics Capabilities (323): 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Pad Resolution (324): 1, 1
Synaptics Area (325): 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Soft Button Areas (328): 3568, 0, 4110, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Noise Cancellation (326): 26, 26
Device Product ID (254): 2, 7
Device Node (255): "/dev/input/event6"
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Thanks for the useful help. Problem solved! :)
You can fix it this way:
- Run
sudo -H gedit /etc/default/grub
In the open window edit line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
it should look this way
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.nopnp"
Save file and run
sudo update-grub
-
Run
echo "blacklist i2c_hid" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i2c-hid.conf sudo depmod -a sudo update-initramfs -u echo "synaptics_i2c" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules Reboot.
Please be careful, do not retype these commands, but copy them and paste into the terminal, or you can break the whole system, if mistype.
This solution disables Plug & Play for i8042 devices, then disables i2c-hid module and enables synaptics_i2c instead or it.
Plug & Play triggers a wrong module for this device.