@ Renato It seems that you don't have the Alps driver installed... Here is my xinput list: xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=15 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Apple Wireless Mouse id=14 [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)] ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Dell WMI hotkeys And here is my output for dmesg | grep -i mouse: dmesg | grep -i mouse [ 0.711739] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 25.421139] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11 [ 351.924238] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0001: >unknown main item tag 0x0 [ 352.002836] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:21/input12 [ 352.003198] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0001: >input,hidraw0: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on E0:06:E6:DC:AF:6E [46559.042801] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input13 [46927.645847] psmouse serio1: >alps: E6 report: 00 00 64 [46927.669350] psmouse serio1: >alps: E7 report: 73 03 50 [46927.688820] psmouse serio1: >alps: Model=26, proto_version=5 [46928.101899] psmouse serio1: >alps: E6 report: 00 00 64 [46928.125229] psmouse serio1: >alps: E7 report: 73 03 50 [46928.143586] psmouse serio1: >alps: Model=26, proto_version=5 [46929.621579] input: PS/2 Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input14 [48944.734103] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0002: >unknown main item tag 0x0 [48944.788729] input: Apple Wireless Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:21/input16 [48944.789303] magicmouse 0005:05AC:030D.0002: >input,hidraw0: BLUETOOTH HID v0.84 Mouse [Apple Wireless Mouse] on E0:06:E6:DC:AF:6E Note: This Wireless Mouse/magic mouse that appears at my xinput is a Apple external mouse that I was using in order to be able to scroll... Try to remove what you have already intalled with: sudo dkms remove psmouse/[the drivers you have installed] --all And do it again to see if it works... Very important: I am already running on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal and that means that my Kernel release is already the 3.5.0-17-generic. I saw that you are still using the 3.2. I highly reccomend the upgrade for you not just becouse of the touchpad function but also for the better support for the Ivybridge Intel Graphics. My Dell 5420 was having several freezes under that kernel. After the update everything started to work fine! And I am in São Paulo but in Alphaville! Valeu pela breja! Quem sabe numa próxima!