Wacom touch screen on lenovo X201t stopped working after upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04

[Alan Jackson]

I recently changed from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. I re-installed from scratch as I was moving from 32bit to 64bit.

My lenovo x201 tablet's touch screen and stylus did work fine with 32bit 14.04.

Now the touch screen is not even recognised.

It does not show up in System Settings > Wacom Tablet

Running:
xsetwacom --list devices

returns nothing.

sudo lshw | grep wacom

returns nothing.

xinput returns:

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [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)]
    ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

...but no mention of the wacom touchscreen.

The following file is present on my system:

/lib/udev/rules.d/69-wacom.rules

it contains the following:

ACTION!="add|change", GOTO="wacom_end"

# Match all serial wacom tablets with a serial ID starting with WACf
# Notes: We assign NAME though we shouldn't, but currently the server requires it
# We assign the lot to subsystem pnp too because server reads NAME from
# the parent device. Once all that's fixed, as simple SUBSYSTEM="tty"
# will do and the ENV{NAME} can be removed.
SUBSYSTEM=="tty|pnp", SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp", ATTRS{id}=="WACf*", ENV{ID_MODEL}="Serial Wacom Tablet $attr{id}", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1", ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet $attr{id}"
SUBSYSTEM=="tty|pnp", SUBSYSTEMS=="pnp", ATTRS{id}=="FUJ*", ENV{ID_MODEL}="Serial Wacom Tablet $attr{id}", ENV{ID_INPUT}="1", ENV{ID_INPUT_TABLET}="1", ENV{NAME}="Serial Wacom Tablet $attr{id}"

# comment out the next line if your distribution does not provide systemd
# If a /dev/ttySx device with the WACf name is detected, start the
# wacom-inputattach service with the kernel name as parameter
SUBSYSTEM=="tty|pnp", KERNEL=="ttyS[0-9]*", ATTRS{id}=="WACf*", TAG+="systemd", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}+="wacom-inputattach@%k.service"

LABEL="wacom_end"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom 1:0.32.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-45.66-generic 4.4.21
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 3 03:15:34 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: xenial
DistroVariant: ubuntu
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-23 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 17ef:4816 Lenovo Integrated Webcam
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: LENOVO 2985EZG
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-45-generic root=UUID=462ac55e-9784-4072-898e-057558a90176 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xf86-input-wacom
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 07/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6QET47WW (1.17 )
dmi.board.name: 2985EZG
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6QET47WW(1.17):bd07/14/2010:svnLENOVO:pn2985EZG:pvrThinkPadX201Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn2985EZG:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2985EZG
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X201 Tablet
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160714-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.16.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2.2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
xserver.bootTime: Thu Nov 3 02:48:09 2016
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 16401
 vendor LEN
xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2.2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h)]

I add some important info.

Every time a new kernel upgrade is performed (e.g. via software updates) touchscreen come alive at reboot.

Unfortunately it stops working after another simple reboot.