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After upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 -> 14.10 -> 15.04, the Synaptics Touchpad no longer works properly. In 14.04 it was fine, in 14.10 it did not work at all, but in 15.04 it works minimally in that I can do everything except scroll.

The Ubuntu help page says:

Basic Configuration with a Graphical Interface

Ubuntu provides basic configuration of your touchpad options in System -> Preferences -> Mouse, under the Touchpad tab.

Try the touchpad after unchecking the Enable mouse clicks with touchpad check box.

Check operation after Enable horizontal scrolling is checked. This may not have been the default setting.

However, when I open the system configuration tool and select, "Mouse and Touchpad" (I assume that is what System -> Preferences -> Touchpad is referring to), these options don't exist.

If I try to use synclient, I get:

"Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

Is there anything I can do to get scrolling working?

Thanks

Peter

Peter
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  • Search for Additional Drivers in Unity Dash and see if mousepad drivers are available. – TheWanderer Apr 27 '15 at 23:48
  • A search for "additional drivers" in the dash return nothing. Do I need to install something? – Peter Apr 29 '15 at 16:06
  • Ah!! But a search for 'controladores aditionales' returns something :-/ It shows the driver for the wireless card, an unspecified non-functioning device, and nothing else. – Peter Apr 29 '15 at 16:09
  • You might just have to wait for an update. – TheWanderer Apr 29 '15 at 16:43
  • I may be waiting a long time, then, given that it didn't work at all in 14.10. The thing I can't figure is that it worked just fine in 14.04. Is there anyone I should inform about it? Report a bug or something? – Peter Apr 29 '15 at 19:39
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    This fixes it for a single session:

    peter@peter-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo rmmod psmouse peter@peter-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo modprobe -v psmouse insmod /lib/modules/3.16.0-34-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko peter@peter-HP-Pavilion-15-Notebook-PC:~$

    Can't find any way of making it permanent, though.

     – Peter Apr 29 '15 at 19:59
  • You can make those scripts and then tell Ubuntu to run those scripts upon login. Make a text file, put #!/bin/bash at the top, then put every command you ran on separate lines below that. – TheWanderer Apr 29 '15 at 23:27
  • How can I get the script to run as root? If I can't do that it will either fail, or prompt for the password. Either way, it doesn't provide any advantage, really. – Peter Apr 30 '15 at 08:06
  • Tried putting the commands in a startup script (psmouse.conf) in /etc/init but it didn't work. – Peter Apr 30 '15 at 08:37
  • I think if you tell them to run at startup, using System Settings, they should run as root. – TheWanderer Apr 30 '15 at 10:06
  • I had it running as root by putting the script in /etc/init, but it didn't work. – Peter Apr 30 '15 at 15:10
  • As the admin is getting annoyed, I'll start a new query. – Peter Apr 30 '15 at 15:21
  • There is an application that comes with Ubuntu that lets you specify programs or scripts to run at startup. You need to do this. – TheWanderer Apr 30 '15 at 16:03
  • Yeah. Tried all those. Didn't work. Using rc.local turned out to be the solution in the end. – Peter Apr 30 '15 at 21:54
  • Well, glad it's been worked around. – TheWanderer Apr 30 '15 at 22:05
  • I have the same problem with a Lenovo Yoga Pro 2. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Jun 11 '15 at 14:12

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