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I am a complete newbie and a moderately incapable pensioner so forgive me if I ask a stupid question.

I have installed Ubuntu on my E7240 and everything works fine apart from the touchpad. I have 8GB RAM and a 128GB SSD and the i5 processor.

It's an Alps touchpad.

It works but the pointer jiggles around and so I cannot easily select text. Also when scrolling it sometimes goes in the wrong direction at first. It's almost unusable.

I tried installing the drivers from Dell for version 12 Ubuntu but that didn't help. See: https://www.dell.com/support/home/uk/en/ukbsdt1/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=0WKFN

Having tried the Dell drivers and not finding things much better I have installed a fresh install of 18.04.1 which also didn't help.

Basically the touchpad seems too sensitive to touch? I think that may be the issue.

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For me on my system, I tried loads of distributions but discovered that the latest Kubuntu comes with lots of touchpad adjustments. However, they are greyed out.

I had to run 

sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

and then reboot. After that the adjustments weren't greyed out. And I managed to sort out the jumping pointer. I found this on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMq-g82SEo

I have no idea if this will work for everyone. But it did work on my Dell e7240, 8Gb, 128 Gb SSD, i5.

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