I just recently installed ubuntu 14.04 onto my friends dell inspiron 2 in 1 laptop, we have touch screen support but the touch pad is not working. He is dual booted with windows 8.1.
You should provide more informations like the laptop model.
Edit: if it's an inspiron 3000 or 7000 series, try this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/623598/dell-inspiron-7347-inactive-cursor-with-my-touchpad-on-ubuntu-14-04
the desktop environment can effect this.
for example, on my laptop the touch pad works on gnome but not kde (i had to plug in an external mouse and go into the settings and disable it and re enable it every time i trurned on my computer)
bro , its me who is in trouble ! i have a dell inspiron 7352 , 2-in-1 touch laptop
and the problem is a bit different : at times when i reboot the touchpad works and at times it don't .
jonnyp3f suggested a nice idea to delete all the drivers related to touchpad and re-install afresh .
What say ?
- Open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf in your favorite text editor.
- Add the line 'blacklist i2c-hid' (no quotes)
- Save and reboot
If you're not satisfied with the touchpad or it doesn't work, you can either update to a newer kernel or to a newer Ubuntu version.
dude this is what i've got, i m sorry but i couldn't get what u meant by favourite text editor, but i did it in terminal.
M new to programming n linux
Maybe installing a newer version of ubuntu eg 15.10 might solve the issues.
Or just update the kernel.
1 Like
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf this should open the file. Then add the line 'blacklist i2c-hid' (no quotes), save the file and reboot.
If it gives you a file not found error after the first command, do sudo touch /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf then open the file again with the command above (sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and go on with the rest.
If it still doesn't work, upgrade the kernel or install a newer version of Ubuntu.