In the standard 3.13 kernels for 14.04 the touchpad wasn't supported at all. Therefore it worked, but it was impossible to turn off its most irritating feature which was tap to click. Most implementations at least give the option to disable this when typing, but the default generic implementation didn't even have that, rendering the touchpad worse than useless as it was impossible to avoid touching it whilst typing, resulting for example in the point of input in emails and editors getting randomly moved to wherever the pointer happened to be. I found some info claiming that this was fixed in 3.19 where there was a real ALPS touchpad driver. However, the effect of the fix was simply to disable the touchpad completely, at least for my laptop. I discovered that it was still possible to enable tap to click should I happen to want that, so clearly the driver was doing something. However, it did not contain any support for moving the pointer that I could find. Then the 3.19 kernel (vivid) got replaced during an upgrade to the xenial series 4 kernel as below. Unfortunately this didn't work any better, which is why I raised the bug against 4.4.
I'll give the 4.8 kernel a go, but it will be a few days before the require round tuits arrive. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1622167 Title: ALPS touchpad driver doesn't work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1622167/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
