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I am having exactly the same problem with the touchpad after upgrading to 14.10, a solution was suggested in Synaptic touchpad on laptop not working after update

the manual solution of executing always works: 

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

but unfortunately I cannot make it permanent. I created the file psmouse.conf as it was suggested but the error remains, the touchpad is not working after rebooting. I have to plug a USB mouse and manually run in a terminal

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

This time I didn't include the parameters to check if the options would be taken from the file and it seems like it does, the touchpad works perfectly after those commands. But I don't understand why those options are not taken during the booting phase.

Finally I decided to add these two lines to the rc.local, but I dont like this workaround...

any idea why the settings in psmouse.cong are not taked during the booting phase?

thanks a lot. Jose

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  • Is the psmouse loaded during boot at all? – Wilf Mar 02 '15 at 19:15
  • yes, I just removed the two lines in the rc.local and restarted. The USB mouse works but the touchpad doesnt. I need to run the commands I said in order to get it work. It seems like the module psmouse gets loaded but it doesnt get the parameters set in the /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.cfg .... as it should do in my opinion... – YaKs Mar 03 '15 at 13:43

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