Touchpad Clicking not working in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after upgrading kernel from version 4.4.0-64 to 4.8.0-39

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My touchpad clicking feature stopped working in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after i upgraded kernel from version 4.4.0-64 generic to 4.8.0-39 generic.Clicking is working fine with touchpad buttons but not with the main touchpad. I have to boot with the old kernel version through the grub menu while booting.

The output of the command xinput gives the output:

⎡ Virtual core pointer                      id=2    [master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer                id=4    [slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ FTE1001:00 0B05:0101                      id=11   [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)]
    ↳ USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam                     id=10   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                          id=12   [slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard              id=13   [slave  keyboard (3)]

The output of the command $xinput list-props 11 gives the following output:

Device 'USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam':
    Device Enabled (139):   1
    Coordinate Transformation Matrix (141): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
    libinput Send Events Modes Available (257): 1, 0
    libinput Send Events Mode Enabled (258):    0, 0
    libinput Send Events Mode Enabled Default (259):    0, 0
    Device Node (260):  "/dev/input/event8"
    Device Product ID (261):    3034, 22494
    libinput Horizonal Scroll Enabled (262):    0

Please [edit] your question and add output of xinput terminal command. — Pilot6, Mar 04 '17 at 20:24
Possible duplicate of ASUS "FTE1000:00 0B05:0101" touchpad scroll option not working — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:14
Install the driver from the duplicate link. The touchpad is detected as a mouse without it. — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:15
Even my previous kernel version stopped responding to touchpad clicking after installing your referred package! — Aman Gupta, Mar 05 '17 at 08:37
It is unclear what is the problem. You can always remove that driver. Please add output of xinput list-props 11 — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:43
I see what is the problem. libinput is install. It is easy to fix. Do you have the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.conf? — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:48
And please run again xinput. It looks like the ID has changed. — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:49
bash: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.conf: Permission denied — Aman Gupta, Mar 05 '17 at 08:50
And please run xinput again. Now the id of your touchpad is not 11. And then paste the output of xinput list-props <your__touchpad_id> — Pilot6, Mar 05 '17 at 08:54

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '17 at 08:52

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It is not related to the kernel upgrade. You installed libinput. Tapping is disabled there by default. It can be fixed this way. Run

sudo -H gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.conf

An editor window will open. Find the touchpad section in this file and add there a line

Option "Tapping" "true"

before EndSection.

Save the file and reboot. Tapping will be enabled.

answered Mar 05 '17 at 08:52

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Yes it finally worked! Thank you very much sir! – Aman Gupta Mar 05 '17 at 08:59
It was not related to the kernel upgrade. And now you have multitouch too. – Pilot6 Mar 05 '17 at 09:04
Yupp! I wasn't able to use multitouch until this change. :) – Aman Gupta Mar 05 '17 at 09:05

Touchpad Clicking not working in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS after upgrading kernel from version 4.4.0-64 to 4.8.0-39

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