Having trouble getting the touchpad recognized. Using ThinkPad T430 to run Ubuntu 18.04.3 TLS. Any recommendations?
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Having trouble getting the touchpad recognized. Using ThinkPad T430 to run Ubuntu 18.04.3 TLS. Any recommendations?
Last edited by spacewalk22; October 16th, 2019 at 10:59 PM.
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Sorry if I'm stating the obvious but you've looked at the Settings - Devices - Mouse and Touchpad menu to make sure it's enabled? I have a T430 and the touch pad works as expected (though I prefer the trackpoint most of the time). If the touchpad becomes unresponsive sometimes it helps to toggle between Two-finger Scrolling and Edge Scrolling.
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Hi. Yes, I should have mentioned that I don't see TouchPad at all in Settings - Devices - Mouse and Touchpad and this laptop does not have the function key to toggle the TouchPad. I also verified its enabled in BIOS.
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What does this show:
Might not hurt to see this as well:Code:apt policy xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Code:xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=12 [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)] ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
Last edited by 1fallen; October 17th, 2019 at 08:15 PM.
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apt policy xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
Installed: 1.9.0-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.9.0-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.9.0-1ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ HID 062a:0000 id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [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)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated Camera: Integrated C id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Raw Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
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The device is not present in 'xinput list' output, so not surprising that Xorg does not report it either. Forget trying to configure an absent device in any desktop utility until it is first present.
Something is amuck here.
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If you run the same commands in a live boot of 19.10 do you get a different output?
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