My Touchpad is Detected but not working in Ubuntu 14.04 on Toshiba Satellite P75

[zefoo]

I have a Toshiba Satellite P75-A7200 that I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on and it runs great. But the touchpad does not work. I plugged in a usb mouse and it worked fine but the laptop touchpad wont work. I tried everything I could find under the sun and it is detected and all and says its enabled but does not work. I have pressed fn f7 to enable the mouse and still nothing. Synaptics is installed im pretty sure to because I used synaptics --list or something like that and It worked fine. How can I fix it?

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[BluetoothBoy]

Drivers. If they don't exist, they don't exist. However, Ubuntu has pretty good support, so they should be available... Somewhere. You just have to find them. :/

[zefoo]

Drivers. If they don't exist, they don't exist. However, Ubuntu has pretty good support, so they should be available... Somewhere. You just have to find them. :/

I have the synaptic drivers if that is what you are talking about?

[BluetoothBoy]

I have the synaptic drivers if that is what you are talking about?

I'm not sure. I really haven't messed around with touchpads in Linux much; all I know is that if you have the proper driver it should work.

You don't have one of those switches that shuts off the touchpad, right? Unlikely, but if you do, check it.

[zefoo]

I'm not sure. I really haven't messed around with touchpads in Linux much; all I know is that if you have the proper driver it should work.

You don't have one of those switches that shuts off the touchpad, right? Unlikely, but if you do, check it.

I do but they do not work. FN-F5

[Starzy]

I do but they do not work. FN-F5

Ubuntu sucks, install Linux Mint or Arch.

[Nal]

Ubuntu sucks, install Linux Mint or Arch.

yeah because clearly installing a different distro will fix driver issues even though mint is ubuntu based and arch is advanced
try harder

[Starzy]

yeah because clearly installing a different distro will fix driver issues even though mint is ubuntu based and arch is advanced
try harder

It fixed my issue. Clearly, you have not tried this.

[Nal]

It fixed my issue. Clearly, you have not tried this.

yeah well why go through and install an entirely new distro just for a touchpad