I spoke with Andrew Duggan and he figured out that as of kernel 4.0 the touchpad is incorrectly detected as a clickpad. That's why the touchpad works, but in a flaky way. The good news is that this seems solvable. All you have to do is:
synclient ClickPad=0 Palm detection is also off by default and I find it basically unusuable without it, so also do: synclient PalmDetect=1 These changes aren't saved after a reboot, but to make them permanent, create a configuration file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/. You can do it with this one-liner: echo -e "Section \"InputClass\"\n\tIdentifier \"touchpad catchall\"\n\tDriver \"synaptics\"\n\tMatchIsTouchpad \"on\"\n\tMatchDevicePath \"/dev/input/event*\"\n\n\tOption \"PalmDetect\" \"1\"\n\tOption \"ClickPad\" \"0\"\nEndSection" | sudo tee /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-synaptics-options.conf &> /dev/null So to summarize, we can get 100% touchpad functionality by installing Linux kernel >= 4.0, then running both synclient ClickPad=0 synclient PalmDetect=1 Not sure who to go to to correct this default misconfiguration, but at least we can get everything working! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315360 Title: [Razer Blade] Trackpad detected as mouse only To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1315360/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
