Touchpad detected as a PS/2 mouse on Asus X205TA Laptop

[fogNL]

Touchpad on the Asus X205TA detected as a PS/2 mouse only, so synaptics features not working nor touchpad screen showing in mouse settings. Can re-create this bug on every install on Ubuntu.

Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release: 15.10

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
  Installed: 1.8.2-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.8.2-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.8.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-7.7-generic 4.2.0
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Sep 8 09:02:37 2015
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: wily
DistroVariant: ubuntu
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0610 Genesys Logic, Inc. 4-port hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:57b5 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. X205TA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-7-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=3c9cff93-5a6b-4a11-b4af-27088e9f6838 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/18/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: X205TA.208
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: X205TA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrX205TA.208:bd12/18/2014:svnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:pnX205TA:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnX205TA:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: X205TA
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.1+15.10.20150805-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.6.3-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.6.3-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Tue Sep 8 08:47:28 2015
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 4400
 vendor CMN
xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu5

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Corey Quilliam, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases your release is EOL.

If you have an issue in a supported release (ex. 16.04) please file a new report, and feel free to subscribe me to it.