Touchpad not recognized on Dell Vostro V13

[LiohMoeller]

The touchpad is not recognized on a Dell Vostro V13 (and some other models).

There is a patch available at:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15416

It would be great if this one could be included.

[Justin Krehel (jkrehel)]

Hello Marcus,

Thanks a lot for the bug report! We appreciate it.

We will examine the schedule for the kernel and see if we should patch the kernel or if there will be a new kernel in the near future that addresses this issue as part of standard upgrades and fixes.

Thank you again for reporting this!

- Justin

[Erik Landgren (elandgren)]

Marcus,

You can solve this issue easily... (it's been affecting me since my Ubuntu 9.X .. and it seems it continue to affect other distros like Mint) :

1) modify grub file: nano /etc/default/grub;

2) edit the line and let it be like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"

3) Update your grub with this command: update-grub

I hope it works 4 you... in my case, I'm using a Vostro 1510.

Cheers!