There is no "touch-pad" section in system settings->mouse and touch-pad. Fn+F9 just shows a crossed out touch-pad symbol.
Please help; THX!
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ HID 04b4:0033 id=10 [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)]
↳ USB Camera id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Asus WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
[ 2.062714] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 2.062962] pnp 00:01: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs SYN0a2d SYN0a00 SYN0002 PNP0f13 (active)
[ 2.062997] pnp 00:02: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs ATK3001 PNP030b (active)
[ 2.063121] pnp 00:04: Plug and Play ACPI device, IDs PNP0b00 (active)
[ 2.064110] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 8 devices
3.19.0-46-generic
xinput; dmesg | grep pnp; uname -r
terminal command. – Pilot6 Jan 17 '16 at 14:31synaptics_i2c
as directed http://askubuntu.com/a/632570/167850 – Pilot6 Jan 17 '16 at 15:25wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4-wily/linux-image-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
– blurple Jan 17 '16 at 21:31