Christopher M. Penalver (penalvch), have installed 14.04.1 onto a USB hard drive, rebooted from this, and yes, the touchpad works fine. Relevant section from xorg log pasted below. Rebooted from internal hard drive and touchpad not working.
Regards [ 44.743] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event4) [ 44.746] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev touchpad catchall" [ 44.746] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "touchpad catchall" [ 44.746] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "Default clickpad buttons" [ 44.746] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" [ 44.747] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so [ 44.844] (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation" [ 44.844] compiled for 1.15.0, module version = 1.7.4 [ 44.844] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver [ 44.844] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 20.0 [ 44.844] (II) Using input driver 'synaptics' for 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad' [ 44.844] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events [ 44.844] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4" [ 44.864] (II) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: ignoring touch events for semi-multitouch device [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: x-axis range 1222 - 5734 (res 48) [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: y-axis range 910 - 4974 (res 95) [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: pressure range 0 - 255 [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: finger width range 0 - 15 [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right double triple [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Vendor 0x2 Product 0x7 [ 44.864] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found [ 44.865] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events [ 44.896] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5/event4" [ 44.896] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 11) [ 44.896] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MinSpeed is now constant deceleration 2.5 [ 44.896] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) MaxSpeed is now 1.75 [ 44.896] (**) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) AccelFactor is now 0.033 [ 44.897] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1 [ 44.897] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 1 [ 44.897] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [ 44.897] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [ 44.897] (--) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: touchpad found [ 44.898] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 44.898] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Ignoring device from InputClass "touchpad ignore duplicates" ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1362584 Title: [HP 255 G1 Notebook PC] Synaptics Touchpad not Working after upgrade from 12.04.1 LTS to 14.04.1 LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1362584/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs