{"id":866,"date":"2017-03-17T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=866"},"modified":"2017-03-29T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T10:21:49","slug":"ubuntu-16-04-touchpad-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/ubuntu-16-04-touchpad-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved – 5 Answers] Ubuntu 16.04 touchpad not working"},"content":{"rendered":"

Upgraded Ubuntu from 15.10 to 16.04 and the touchpad now is not working, before it works normally, when you press button to toogle touchpad on your pc, it always display as disable.<\/p>\n

If you type<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”less%20%2Fproc%2Fbus%2Finput%2Fdevices%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n[ad type=”banner”]\n

If there is no support for your touchpad in the kernel your touchpad is detected then the problem is elsewhere. Typing<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”xinput%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

It will show X server has detected your touchpad. If your touchpad is in that list it may be possible to modify the X config.<\/p>\n

To change grub file,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”sudo%20nano%20%2Fetc%2Fdefault%2Fgrub%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

Replace<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT%3D%22quiet%20splash%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

By way of<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT%3D%22i8042.reset%20quiet%20splash%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

Save the file and then update grub using,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”sudo%20update-grub%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

command. and then restart your OS,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”sudo%20shutdown%20-r%20now%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

Edit 50-synaptics.conf file :<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”sudo%20nano%20%2Fusr%2Fshare%2FX11%2Fxorg.conf.d%2F50-synaptics.conf%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n[ad type=”banner”]\n

Add the following lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”MatchIsTouchpad%20%22on%22%0AOption%20%22TapButton1%22%20%221%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

Similar:<\/strong><\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”Section%20%22InputClass%22%0A%20%20%20%20Identifier%20%22touchpad%20catchall%22%0A%20%20%20%20Driver%20%22synaptics%22%0A%20%20%20%20MatchIsTouchpad%20%22on%22%0A%20%20%20%20Option%20%22TapButton1%22%20%221%22%0A%20%20%20%20Option%20%22VertEdgeScroll%22%20%221%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

Save , exit and reboot<\/p>\n

Edit the grub file from,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX%3D%22%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n

To change,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX%3D%22i8042.reset%20i8042.nomux%20i8042.nopnp%20i8042.noloop%22%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n[ad type=”banner”]\n

You have updated from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 on a Acer V5 and the touchpad stoped working,
\nTo install,then you solve this problem,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”sudo%20apt-get%20install%20xserver-xorg-input-synaptics%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROBLEM Upgraded Ubuntu from 15.10 to 16.04 and the touchpad now is not working, before it works normally, when you press button to toogle touchpad on your pc, it always display as disable. SOLUTION 1 If you type [pastacode lang=”bash” manual=”less%20%2Fproc%2Fbus%2Finput%2Fdevices%0A” message=”Bash Code” highlight=”” provider=”manual”\/] [ad type=”banner”] If there is no support for your touchpad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1699],"tags":[1682,1668,1671,1669,1674,1673,1675,1672,1667,1676,1678,1681,1680,1679,1677,1670],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-ubuntu-16-04-trackpad-stops-working","tag-solved-ubuntu-16-04-touchpad-not-working","tag-debuggingtouchpaddetection","tag-how-to-fix-touchpad-not-working-on-ubuntu","tag-is-your-laptop-touchpad-not-working-after-upgrading-to-ubuntu","tag-restarting-your-touchpadmouse-in-ubuntu","tag-touchpad-not-detected-ubuntu","tag-touchpad-not-working-after-suspend-ubuntu-16-04-unix-linux","tag-touchpad-under-16-04-not-working","tag-ubuntu-15-10-touchpad-not-working","tag-ubuntu-16-touchpad-not-working","tag-ubuntu-16-04-touchpad-not-working-after-suspend","tag-ubuntu-elantech-touchpad","tag-ubuntu-touchpad-not-working-after-login","tag-ubuntu-touchpad-stopped-working","tag-why-touchpad-is-not-working-in-ubuntu-16-04"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}