Also any deeper insight into why my touchpad wouldn't work would be appreciated - it used to do the same thing to me on Windows until I installed the Synaptics drivers.ĮDIT: The mouse and keyboard which I plugged in to my laptop were also not recognised.ĮDIT #2: I ran sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-all and now I'm right back where I started - touchpad not working, everything else fine. I was thinking it might just be a case of reinstalling all the xserver-xorg packages that I uninstalled, but I'm not sure how to go about this since there are so many of them. Or, Step-2: If you are using Driver Talent, run Driver Talent and click Scan to identify the outdated, corrupted or broken touchpad driver in seconds. I've looked online for other solutions, but none of the ones I've looked at have been helpful. I rebooted again the other day and now only my touchpad works. Sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-synapticsĪptitude told me that a bunch of other xserver-xorg items would be removed to deal with the dependencies (apologies but I did not write down which ones though there were about 10 of them all related to xserver-xorg), and after installing and rebooting, my touchpad, keyboard and touchscreen all worked.
I looked around and found a solution (can't find the link) which told me to do this: sudo apt-get install aptitude
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my 5 year old Lenovo and immediately my touchpad didn't work.
