Ubuntu – Synaptics Touchpad scroll not working

14.04dellsynapticstouchpadxorg

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 on my Dell Studio 1557.
My synaptics touch pad is detected but the scroll functions are not working.
The scroll option in the GUI for the mouse and touch pad has disappeared.
I have tried reinstalling xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package but receive the following error of Package 'xorg-input-abi-20' has no installation candidate.
Please advise for a solution.

Mousepad GUI

The following is the output and I am still unable to install the multi-touch package.

hmehra@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
[sudo] password for hmehra: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Removed xserver-xorg-core

hmehra@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove xserver-xorg-core
[sudo] password for hmehra: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-modesetting xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 28 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
After this operation, 11.7 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 411157 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xserver-xorg (1:7.7+1ubuntu8) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion (2:1.7.7-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-ati (2:7.1.0-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse (2:13.0.0-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-mouse (2:1.8.1-makson1~raring3) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-mach64 (1:6.9.4-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-intel (3:2.21.4-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-evdev (2:2.7.3-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-input-wacom (2:0.20.0-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-cirrus (2:1.5.2-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-fbdev (2:0.4.3-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-mga (2:1.6.2-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-modesetting (1:0.6.0-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-neomagic (2:1.2.7-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (2:1.0.6-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (2:0.3.1-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-qxl (1:0.1.0-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-r128 (1:6.9.1-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-radeon (2:7.1.0-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-s3 (2:0.6.5-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-savage (2:2.3.6-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-sis (2:0.10.7-makson1~raring2) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-sisusb (2:0.9.6-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-tdfx (2:1.4.5-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-trident (2:1.3.6-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vesa (2:2.3.2-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-video-vmware (2:13.0.0-makson1~raring1) ...
Removing xserver-xorg-core (3:1.12.4+git20121105-makson2~raring1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ...

Output on reinstalling –

hmehra@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libxatracker1
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
Suggested packages:
xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xserver-xorg-core
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,228 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3,757 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main xserver-xorg-core amd64   2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2 [1,228 kB]
Fetched 1,228 kB in 1s (633 kB/s)            
Selecting previously unselected package xserver-xorg-core.
(Reading database ... 410842 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.15.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... 
Unpacking xserver-xorg-core (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
Setting up xserver-xorg-core (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2) ...

Best Answer

This may be a bug because in 14.04 these options are available via the GUI.

This is a possible solution for you, view the original answer here Enable Edge And Two Finger Scrolling

Quite simple create a script using gedit or a document writer

First open gedit and copy and paste the following :

#!/bin/bash

synclient VertEdgeScroll=1
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1

Save the file as scrolling.sh in your ~/bin directory

change the permissions to be able to run it as program open terminal CTRL + ALT + T run this command:

chmod +x ~/bin/scrolling

search for Startup Applications in Dash, and open it then set up scrolling to run when ubuntu starts up.

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You need to install some other packages before installing dummy driver Try this and it will resolve the problem:

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I tried all from above, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-synaptics.conf, just /etc/X11/xorg.conf, startup-command in either xfce or mate and even startup-script with 10 seconds delay and then execute synclient-commands in a loop or without a loop. Nothing worked. Only thing I couldn't try was to set it via gsettings because I didn't find any touchpad settings there.

Working Solution for me was: Just adding the synclient command at the end of ~/.bashrc So in your case, just add:

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