lunaryorn/synaptiks — Issue #33: No touchpad found
Author: linuxrev
Created: 2011-11-27 20:48:07+00:00
State: open

On my laptop (Clevo M7 alias Novatech TK-42 -- kind of an anonymous 'Made in China') my touchpad is working properly, during system start and after KDE has loaded, but it seems to be invisible to the system. In KDE Control Centre it says 'No touchpad found', asking to report this to the issue tracker. Well, here is my detailed report.

1. synaptiks version: n/a
Instead using: kde-config-touchpad v0.7.0

2. system architecture: i686, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core TK-42
Kernel 3.0.0-14 / Kubuntu 11.10 (64-bit) with KDE 4.7.7

3. touchpad driver:
'synclient -l' returns error message: "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"
and /var/log/Xorg.0.log doesn't have any synaptics line either
However, installed is: synaptics driver v1.4.1 as part of Ubuntu package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
-- and the touchpad IS working (to switch it off I use the laptop's FN key)

I hope this information is helpful for someone who has more understanding of this system issue than I have.