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I did a fresh install. Still, neither dmesg | grep mouse nor cat /proc/bus/input/devices seem to show any input from a touchpad.

I am still looking for a way to fix the touchpad. Any help has been and will be greatly appreciated.

================================================================================ When I initially installed Ubuntu, the touchpad worked just fine. After doing some updates, the touchpad quit working.

I followed these instructions but that failed to fix the problem.

lsmod | grep psmouse produces psmouse 109109 0

psmouse.conf does not seem to exist in /etc/modprobe.d

Neither dmesg | grep mouse nor cat /proc/bus/input/devices seem to show that the touchpad is a valid input.

The following suggeested solution failed :

    sudo modprobe -r psmouse
    sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics gpointing-device-settings and trying the above solution did not work either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Eate
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tpavelka
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Good news! The latest version of the Linux Kernel now supports chromebook natively and officially. No patching required.

If you are running a version before 3.17 then you need to update. Check your version.

uname -r

To update manually, run the following (64-bit, 14.10 only):

cd /tmp
sudo mkdir kernel
cd kernel
sudo wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201409021903_amd64.deb
sudo wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-headers-3.17.0-031700rc1_3.17.0-031700rc1.201409021903_all.deb
sudo wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/linux-image-3.17.0-031700rc1-generic_3.17.0-031700rc1.201409021903_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo reboot

Give the boot process at least 5 minutes to finish the first time, ignore the string error you will get

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/1rsxkd/list_of_fixes_for_xubuntu_1310_on_the_acer_c720/

Jonathan
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maybe this page with fix is any help http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2190187&p=12992534#post12992534

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you need to install the synaptics package from here -

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

works on my Toshiba Chromebook 2.

So open terminal - Ctrl+Alt+T, type

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

and then reboot.

Salil
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