It appears that your touchpad is not really detected by the computer, as of now we need the information that Leo demanded for reporting your bug upstream.
This is my output for the same command and I have a working synaptics Touchpad.. si...@simar-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -i synaptics [ 21.721603] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000 [ 21.772040] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input9 si...@simar-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -i mouse [ 0.377044] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /devices/virtual/input/input2 [ 0.463034] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice si...@simar-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep -i touchpad [ 21.721603] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000 [ 21.772040] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input9 Also try to find out the vendor of your touchpad for your laptop model.. -- touchpad not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/598366 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp