Touchpad only recognized as mouse2 but does not offer scrolling

[Steven Basart]

In ubuntu settings, the touchscreen is assigned as mouse1 and has the two finger scrolling and other touchpad features but the touchpad as mouse2 only has pointer speed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.7.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jun 11 14:42:51 2014
DistUpgraded: 2014-06-10 19:50:11,256 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
 # This is a distribution channel descriptor
 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20130203-1
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-06-04 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20130203-13:50
MachineType: Dell Inc. XPS13 9333
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-generic root=UUID=108123b7-137f-432a-b049-b9a3fdb1853a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-10 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/19/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: 0D13CR
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd03/19/2014:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139333:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0D13CR:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: XPS13 9333
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11+14.04.20140423-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.52-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.1.3-0ubuntu0.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.8.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.910-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2
xserver.bootTime: Wed Jun 11 14:16:03 2014
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 4933
 vendor CMN
xserver.version: 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Felix Kay (felix-kiessling)]

Possibly #1336086 is a dublicate.

I am confirming this bug for my DELL LATITUDE D620 (old machine) and Ubuntu Trusty LTS.

The trouble with the touchpad driver - the touchpad being misrecognised as a PS2 mouse - seems to occure with different DELL models as well as even with different manufacturers (cf. #1336086).

Since working with a pointing device is essential to productive working on a computer and since there has been often trouble with this driver since Ubuntu Precise (solving the bug seems to have been eventually dropped for Precise, Quantal etc.) I would like to suggest that a bug solution should be intensively worked on.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Steven Basart, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

To see if this is already resolved, could you please test http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]