Synaptics Touchpad not detected (regression)

[David Cabecinhas]

I have a Toshiba satellite M40 laptop and the Synaptics Touchpad was not automatically detected by the ubuntu installer (doing a fresh install, not an upgrade) in Feisty.

The generated xorg.conf contained a (Identifier "Configured Mouse") as an InputDevice, instead of the correct (Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad").

A Support Request (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3584) also had the same problem, also with a toshiba laptop, a satellite m115. Adding the correct identifier (Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad") in the xorg.conf file solved the problem.

I have installed previous Ubuntu versions in the same laptop and the problem wasn't present (can't recall wheather it was Hoary or Dapper that I installed).

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

If that's the case, then laptop-detect didn't work right.. could you run 'laptop-detect && echo yes', and if it outputs 'yes' then it means that laptop-detect works right and the bug is elsewhere..

[Mathijs Vogelzang (mathijs)]

On my toshiba sattelite 100-803 it outputs 'yes' (feisty x86-64).
BTW, edgy on an Acer 1310 series also didn't autoconfigure the synaptics touchpad.

[David Cabecinhas (david-cab)]

laptop-detect works, I get the 'yes' echoed.

On 3/2/07, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:
> If that's the case, then laptop-detect didn't work right.. could you run
> 'laptop-detect && echo yes', and if it outputs 'yes' then it means that
> laptop-detect works right and the bug is elsewhere..
>
> ** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> ** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: hw-detect => laptop-detect
>
> --
> Synaptics Touchpad not detected (regression)
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/89113
>

[David Cabecinhas (david-cab)]

Just tested the Feisty Herd 5 installation CD and the same problem
happens. It seams a hardware detection problem because even in the
live CD the touchpad is detected as a standard computer mouse.

On 3/2/07, David Cabecinhas <email address hidden> wrote:
> laptop-detect works, I get the 'yes' echoed.
>
> On 3/2/07, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:
> > If that's the case, then laptop-detect didn't work right.. could you run
> > 'laptop-detect && echo yes', and if it outputs 'yes' then it means that
> > laptop-detect works right and the bug is elsewhere..
> >
> > ** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu)
> > Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
> >
> > ** Changed in: hw-detect (Ubuntu)
> > Sourcepackagename: hw-detect => laptop-detect
> >
> > --
> > Synaptics Touchpad not detected (regression)
> > https://launchpad.net/bugs/89113
> >
>

[Schwarzburg (stefan-schwarzburg)]

On my Samsung X11 CeSeBa the Synaptics Touchpad is also not detected as a synaptics.
'laptop-detect && echo yes' echos yes.

Adding the correct "Section "InputDevice" ..." to the xorg.conf makes the touchpad work correctly.

I'm using Xubuntu Feisty Fawn.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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