Ubuntu touchpad issues

Question

My touch pad is not scrolling when I try opening synaptiks I get the message "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?", and in mouse and touch pad settings i do not get any touch pad option, I think the touch pad is being recognised as a generic mouse. Any help appreciated.

Solution

Try to reinstall xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Then

synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff

if this outputs "1".

Change it to "0" by

synclient TouchpadOff=0

Comments

[user3062572]

Hi there as stated in the question when I open synaptiks i get the message "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

[vegard torvund]

Ah, sorry. Look at the edit

[user3062572]

I managed to reinstall xserver-xorg-input-synaptics with the first two commands however when i try synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff I still get the message "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

[user3062572]

everything i try from other websites too all end up giving me this error "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?" any ideas?

[vegard torvund]

I found this bug bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/633225 seems to be the one that you got :\

[vegard torvund]

This should give you a "mouse" at least sudo modprobe -r psmouse sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

[user3062572]

no change after typing in the last command you sent, cypress (the people who make the touchpad driver) have actually created a driver and released it and it is meant to be pre installed in ubuntu 13.04 onwards, i have 13.10, is there anyway i could reinstall that driver?