Summary: This is fixed in kernel 3.17-rc1.
Detail: Researching this for my daughter (Ruth Marsden) I've found this issue has been known on the kernel mailing lists for sometime. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg29123.html. The issue relates to touchpad devices using the ALPS v7 protocol. These devices are reported in this post to have device info as follows: Device ID = 0x73, 0x03, 0x0a Firmware ID = 0x88, 0xb*, 0x** Which includes my daughter's Toshiba Z35 which has this Device ID and Firmware ID = 0x88, 0xb3, 0x22 A kernel patch has been in production over the last few weeks. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-input/msg32703.html and related posts. This patch was added on 9th August and can be found in the Ubuntu kernel daily builds from then and the weekly build at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.17-rc1-utopic/ . To install this see the "Installing upstream kernels" section of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds . We've tested the 3.17-rc1 kernel on my daughter's Toshiba Z35 laptop and can confirm that both touchpad and trackpoint devices work. They are recognised as an AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad and the touchpad section now appears in System Settings > Mouse & Touchpad. In particular "disabling while typing" is available and works. Presumably a kernel with this patch will be released in Ubuntu in due course. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351305 Title: [Toshiba Portege Z35-AST3N01] Touchpad / Trackpoint recognised as generic mouse To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1351305/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
