To reproduce boot the 14.04 release candiate i386 iso and on my hp laptop with hard profile https://gist.github.com/dabcbbc9bdcb7ed8d87d and boot and try to use the touchpad and it will not work. I input a usb keyboard keyboard with touchpad and mini keyboard. However it appears that xorg-xserver-input-synapitcs does not get any output. Running the cmomand synclient from the command line gives me the output Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-vivid:
Installed: 1.8.1-1ubuntu1~trusty1
Candidate: 1.8.1-1ubuntu1~trusty1
Version table:
*** 1.8.1-1ubuntu1~trusty1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
It appears that the driver for the vivid version of X is installed and vivid has the touhcpad working. So this might be something in the way the updated x input drivers get loaded. I
I expected the touchpad to work like it did with trusty with 3.13 kernel utpoic all the way through wiley it works in all of those. Instead the touchpad doesn't move the cursor or click and the scrollwheel along the side does not work.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-vivid 1.8.1-1ubuntu1~trusty1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.340.1
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Aug 3 22:36:23 2015
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta i386 (20150803.1)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-vivid
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
If I select install from the menu however the synaptics driver gets loaded so this is strange.