{"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=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dless%20%2Fproc%2Fbus%2Finput%2Fdevices%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\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=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dxinput%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20nano%20%2Fetc%2Fdefault%2Fgrub%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

Replace<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT%3D%22quiet%20splash%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

By way of<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT%3D%22i8042.reset%20quiet%20splash%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

Save the file and then update grub using,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20update-grub%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

command. and then restart your OS,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20shutdown%20-r%20now%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

Edit 50-synaptics.conf file :<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20nano%20%2Fusr%2Fshare%2FX11%2Fxorg.conf.d%2F50-synaptics.conf%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n

Add the following lines:<\/strong><\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dMatchIsTouchpad%20%22on%22%0AOption%20%22TapButton1%22%20%221%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

Similar:<\/strong><\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dSection%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\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

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

Edit the grub file from,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX%3D%22%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n

To change,<\/p>\n[pastacode lang=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX%3D%22i8042.reset%20i8042.nomux%20i8042.nopnp%20i8042.noloop%22%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\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=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dsudo%20apt-get%20install%20xserver-xorg-input-synaptics%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/]\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=\u201dbash\u201d manual=\u201dless%20%2Fproc%2Fbus%2Finput%2Fdevices%0A\u201d message=\u201dBash Code\u201d highlight=\u201d\u201d provider=\u201dmanual\u201d\/] [ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d] 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}]}}