i have a USB mouse working fine and for the most part it's better to use than the touchpad but I still want the touchpad to work. I tried the live version and it didn't work. Was hoping it would when I installed it but it still doesn't. I have tried several things. I added a parameter into

/etc/defaults/grub

about i8042.noloop and that didn't work. I then seen another fix and added a few more options but still nothing.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"

I tried pressing the buttons Fn+F4 seems to be the one for the touchpad on this particular laptop. Does nothing.

The laptop is a Fujitsu Lifebook A Series. Core i3. Had Windows 10 on it and running fine well as fine as Windows 10 would let it

Can anyone shed any light onto this problem?

Is the touchpad listed via

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FWIW, I found this thread
http://askubuntu.com/questions/53390...n-ubuntu-14-04
suggesting slightly different boot parameters...

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Last couple of installs I did I had to turn on the touchpad - the buttons work by default, but not the surface. Not sure if this applies to Mint, but just try going to settings.

Here is the output of xinput list. it seems to be there alright but something must be stopping it from working.

⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB Optical Mouse id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Fujitsu FUJ02E3 id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Fujitsu FUJ02B1 id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ FJ Camera id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

I tried that but the "Enable Touchpad" toggle is on. I tried turning it off and then on again but nothing happened.

well thanks ferrari,this worked. there were 2 lines in the grub file, these two

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.reset i8042.nomux i8042.nopnp i8042.noloop"

I decided to put the parameters in the "default" line and append them to the 'quiet splash' instead of having their own line. I guessed the default list of parameters would be the one that is used. so for whatever reason it is not reading the parameters on the next line. works like a charm now - thanks.

Yes, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT is the place to put the additional kernel boot parameters. Glad to read that adding those parameters worked for you.