By the bye, it seems as though the OS never loaded the Synaptics drivers at all. No indication that they're present.
r...@tiger:/home/ckr# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics r...@tiger:/home/ckr# As can be seen. On the GUI, there is no "touchpad tab" available. No touchpad utilities will start or load because the drivers are not present. HAL, or its replacement, simply does not "see" a touchpad. --ckr -- Alps touchpad detected as ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse(in VAIO E series) after the kernel upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565543 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs