Comment 12 for bug 1542716

Dear Chris, I installed the latest Kernel and there was no change.
However I have a new info to provide which might help.
I booted the laptop with the Windows 7 installatin CD just to check that
the touchpad was still working. When Windows was ready to start the
installation I canceled it, quickly ejected the CD and the PC moved to
Ubuntu prompt to load the OS and after a few seconds to the Ubuntu log
in page. After this, the touchpad started to work perfectly.
When I re-booted the system from the pre-intalled Ubuntu the touchpad
was dead again.
I made also attempts with live CD of other distributions, e.g., Suse and
Red Hat, without any success.
Apparently Windows loads the driver which is utilized by Ubuntu if load
just after.

Looking forward to hearing form you.
Best regards, maurizio

On 04/03/2016 09:04 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> mauribera, to keep this bug relevant to upstream, one would want to test
> the latest mainline kernel as it comes out (now 4.6-rc2). Could you
> please advise?
>

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