I just received a new Dell Vostro notebook. The touchpad works fine when I boot into setup, or a Windows install DVD, but with Fedora 22 workstation (live and installed), the mouse pointer appears but trying to move the pointer or clicking the touchpad buttons does not work. I plug a USB mouse into a port to work around the issue. I would like to get the touchpad working.
Here is a snippet from journalctl:
(II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event7)
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall"
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall"
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons"
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "libinput touchpad catchall"
(II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event7 13:71 fd 27 paused 0
(II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
(II) input device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad', /dev/input/event7 is tagged by udev as: Touchpad
(II) input device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad', /dev/input/event7 is a touchpad
(**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6/event7"
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 14)
(**) Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) selected scheme none/0
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
(**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
(II) input device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad', /dev/input/event7 is tagged by udev as: Touchpad
(II) input device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad', /dev/input/event7 is a touchpad
(II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
(II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
(II) This device may have been added with another device file.
And here is a dnf command output that shows the drivers installed:
$ dnf list *synaptics*
Fedora 22 - x86_64 1.9 MB/s | 41 MB 00:21
Fedora 22 - x86_64 - Updates 1.2 MB/s | 12 MB 00:10
Last metadata expiration check performed 0:00:10 ago on Sun Jul 19 23:53:39 2015.
Installed Packages
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.x86_64 1.8.2-2.fc22 @System
Available Packages
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel.i686 1.8.2-2.fc22 fedora
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-devel.x86_64 1.8.2-2.fc22 fedora
From what I understand, in Fedora there is no longer a xorg.conf to program as everything is autodetected by default. Since it is not, I would appreciate suggestions on what to do.
EDIT 1 - Clarified that the mouse pointer appears on Fedora 22 boot, but cannot be moved or clicked.
EDIT 2 - Including most of Xorg.0.log from after the suggested grub change.
EDIT 3 - Deleted Edit 2 - It looks like that was a red herring and that the touchpad is actually being detected.
$ xinput
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ DLLC6C1:00 06CB:796A id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ HID 062a:0001 id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Integrated_Webcam_HD id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
Aaargh. I tried to enable/disable the touchpad via xinput CLI and also through the gnome settings interface. No effect, its always off Tried the live version of Ubuntu and saw the same thing. After some googling. I found a that it might be turned off within the hardware. The Dell Vostro 3558 has no keyboard Fn key for the touchpad, but I read to install Windows and the dell synaptics driver, disable the touchpad, enable it, save settings, cut the power and boot fedora. I tried that and the result was the same. Off or on the touchpad does nothing
I guess I need to know how can I troubleshoot why turning the touchpad on/off has no effect and it is always off.