Under ubuntu 14.04
If you are using a generic synaptic touchpad, but it fails to respond to tapping or scrolling actions under a new installation, you can run the following two commands to immediately make it work:
You can put this into rc.local.
Other way to make this change permanent, create a file such as
If you are using a generic synaptic touchpad, but it fails to respond to tapping or scrolling actions under a new installation, you can run the following two commands to immediately make it work:
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=imps
You can put this into rc.local.
Other way to make this change permanent, create a file such as
touchpad.conf under /etc/modprobe.d/, and put the following line in it:options psmouse proto=imps 