Touchpad on Laptop won't work.

[jballer0602]

Could it have something to do with the graphics card?

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

Have you looked at the output from dmesg for error messages about the graphics card, mouse or anything else? You can also gedit the files /var/log/kernel.log and /var/log/Xorg.log to look for error messages.

You can post them here using the "Go Advanced" option and selecting the pound sign, aka "hash tag" symbol that looks like "#" and paste the screen output between the code tags. I'm not great in deciphering error messages but I can probably help you spot them.

[kurt18947]

I'm using Ubuntu-Gnome but can you find something like a "mouse and touchpad" in a hardware or settings app? I'm wondering if for some reason the touchpad is disabled and not showing up.

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

The Gnome desktop is a different animal than the Unity desktop. For example here are hundreds of issues on Gnome Mice: http://gnome-look.org/?xcontentmode=36

[jballer0602]

Well, I've installed Kubuntu now, and the problem still persists. Should I follow through or is it different?

It just seems like even though the Synaptics is installed it won't enable or something.

Take a look at my Xinput List (Kubuntu 14.04)

Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=11 [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)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASUS USB2.0 Webcam id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

Im using an external gaming mouse right now as a derivative. But as you can see, No Synaptics driver?

[jeremy31]

Well, I've installed Kubuntu now, and the problem still persists. Should I follow through or is it different?

It just seems like even though the Synaptics is installed it won't enable or something.

Take a look at my Xinput List (Kubuntu 14.04)

Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=11 [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)]
↳ Power Button id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB Optical gaming mouse id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ASUS USB2.0 Webcam id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]

Im using an external gaming mouse right now as a derivative. But as you can see, No Synaptics driver?

You could install pastebinit and upload a couple files that might help

sudo apt-get install pastebinit

pastebinit /var/log/dmesg

pastebinit /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and just copy/paste the URL's from the last two commands in your next post. I had a similar event happen installing a different linux on a Toshiba Satellite so I used a mouse for a while and before I could figure out what went wrong, the touchpad was working again

[jballer0602]

http://paste.ubuntu.com/7869399/

[jballer0602]

Bump?

[jeremy31]

Bump?

Nothing in Xorg log, how about the /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/kern.log

[WinEunuchs2Unix]

Nothing in Xorg log, how about the /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/kern.log

Agreed.

EDIT: Contents of /var/log/udev might also shine some light on the problem