SynPS/2 Snaptics Touchpad not working

[bublz2]

Hello there

I have a problem with my touchpad, I am not able to move the mouse with the touchpad but I am able to right click or left click items. I can only move the cursor with my mouse. Can anyone help me fix this problem please ? I tried looking around but haven't found anyone that has had this issue before... (P.S i have the Touchpad enabled)

[abram2]

I'm having the same issue after an update running Xubuntu 14.04.1 under kernel version 3.19.0-32-generic. Not sure what's going on yet. I did some googling and tried to update /etc/default/grub with some suggested workarounds, but it doesn't see to be the same issue. I'm suspecting a configuration file got updated, but no clues as of yet. Here is some output from xinput and tpconfig for the record.


$ xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (138): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (140): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (265): 2
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (266): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (267): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (268): 10.000000
Device Product ID (255): 2, 7
Device Node (256): "/dev/input/event4"
Evdev Axis Inversion (269): 0, 0
Evdev Axis Calibration (270): <no items>
Evdev Axes Swap (271): 0
Axis Labels (272): "Abs MT Position X" (263), "Abs MT Position Y" (264), "Abs Pressure" (261), "Abs Tool Width" (262), "None" (0), "None" (0)
Button Labels (273): "Button Left" (141), "Button Unknown" (258), "Button Right" (143), "Button Wheel Up" (144), "Button Wheel Down" (145)
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (274): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (275): 50
Evdev Third Button Emulation (276): 0
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (277): 1000
Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (278): 3
Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (279): 20
Evdev Wheel Emulation (280): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (281): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (282): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (283): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (284): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (285): 0

$ tpconfig -i
Found Synaptics Touchpad.
Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode).
Sensor type: unknown (0).
Geometry: rectangular/landscape/up.
Packets: absolute, 80 packets per second.
Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures.
Edge motion: none.
Z threshold: 6 of 7.
2 button mode; corner tap is right button click.


Any insight is much appreciated!

[abram2]

Making head way. I installed xserver-xorg-input-synaptics as per the instructions on https://askubuntu.com/questions/5951.../596116#596116. I know the touchpad is working, but now i have no cursor. Hah! Back to the googling board to see what's causing that.

[abram2]

Got it! Something got borked in my ~/.config/xfce directory. I created a new user on the system and moved that folder into my home folder to reset the xfce settings back to default. Just thought I would post the follow-ups in the event someone has the same issues.