Found a solution in this thread: https://askubuntu.com/questions/525629/touchpad-is-not-recognized
Editing a line in /etc/default/grub to look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"
did the trick.
Found a solution in this thread: https:/ /askubuntu. com/questions/ 525629/ touchpad- is-not- recognized
Editing a line in /etc/default/grub to look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_ LINUX_DEFAULT= "quiet splash i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"
did the trick.