I freshly installed Kubuntu 13.10, 32 bit version on newly purchased Dell Vostro 2420. everything is working fine except scrolling and multitouch features through touchpad.
I am able to change position of cursor using touchpad and able to tap (single click and double click) but scrolling is not working
I tried to find out solution by searching on google but could not find proper solution to load synaptics drivers.
i am listing some details:
Laptop: Dell Vostro 2420
Linux Kernel version and distribution: 3.11.0-12-generic, Kubuntu 13.10
output of xinput list is
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [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 id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
Output of synclient -l is
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?
output of lshw is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/6645687/
xserver log and dmesg dont have trace of synaptics
kindly tell me how to troubleshoot this problem.
Best Answer
I got the solution at http://www.dahetral.com/public-download
downloading and installing this solves my problem :)
Follow these steps and touchpad will be detected by the system
Download file from http://www.dahetral.com/public-download
Install
extract psmouse-alps-1.3-alt.tbz to /
For this you open Terminal
run
su
Go to the downloaded file folder and execute the following
run
tar -xvf psmouse-alps-1.3-alt.tbz
run
mv usr/src/psmouse-alps-1.3 /usr/src
run
dkms add psmouse/alps-1.3
dkms install psmouse/alps-1.3
reboot
Uninstall :
1.
dkms remove psmouse/alps-1.3 --all
2. delete psmouse/alps-1.3