[hardy alpha 1 amd64] touchpad not detected / configured during install
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
The touchpad is not detected and configured by X either within the LiveCD environment, or within the resulting installation. The synaptics entries are absent from xorg.conf. This is visibly demonstrated in the desktop environment, by the absence of the touchpad tab in gnome-mouse-
This issue was not present in Gutsy. The laptop the bug presents on is an Inspiron 1420. Laptop testing results for Gutsy can be found here:
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This bug may be similar to #40503 and #28648, but is probably related to the switch to xorg 7.3.
The issue can be manually resolved by editing xorg.conf. The touchpad tab in gnome-mouse-
The output of lspci -nn | grep VGA is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS [10de:0427] (rev a1)
Additional information to be attached following the initial report, if there are any additional questions or requests for information, they will be answered promptly.
xorg.conf obtained from Hardy LiveCD environment, pre-installation.