Touchpad recognised but not working on toshiba laptop l50D-B-151

[Amby Chy]

I have installed various various versions of ubuntu: Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome and none of the registers input from my touchpad.
Here is the result when i run xinput

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB OPTICAL MOUSE id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Toshiba input device id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

Touchpad is recognised but input is not being registered. My laptop model number is Toshiba L50D-B-151. Hardware is AMD A8 APU 6410 Quadcore 2GHZ with Radeon R5 Graphics.I have reinstalled many times but i still have the same problem

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Paul White (paulw2u)]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage suggests refiling against the kernel. Apologies if this is incorrect.

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[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Did this issue start happening after an update/upgrade? Was there a prior kernel version where you were not having this particular problem?

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.7-rc1 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc1-yakkety/

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