[LAPTOP] Synaptics drivers are not loading on Kubuntu 14.10 on Toshiba Portege R30-A X3300

[alokmahor]

I am using Toshiba Portege R30-A X3300 with Kubuntu 14.10. everything is working fine except scrolling and multitouch features.
In the Start-menu > Settings > System Setting > input devices > Touchpad. I see message "Synaptics driver is not installed (or is not used)"

output of xinput list is:

root@alok-PORTEGE-R30-A:/home/alok# xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Generic Mouse id=11 [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)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ TOSHIBA Web Camera - HD id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Toshiba input device id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

output of synclient -l is:

root@alok-PORTEGE-R30-A:/home/alok# synclient -l
Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

xserver log and dmesg dont have trace of synaptics. kindly tell me how to solve this problem?

[NickStone]

Had you forgotten about this? -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/39767...ll-vostro-2420
Does that not work for Toshiba laptop?
Or how about this? -> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

[alokmahor]

I have already tried both the links none is working for me. I have done all research. I guess its a bug. where should I report this bug?

Had you forgotten about this? -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/39767...ll-vostro-2420
Does that not work for Toshiba laptop?
Or how about this? -> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

[Worzel]

I have a Realtek touchpad which needs synaptic and does not work on a new install. However the following gets it going, though I have no idea how or why!

In an editor, as root, open /etc/default/grub and look for the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

Change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.noloop" and save the file.

sudo update-grub
reboot

Hope it works, has done for me for the last two years

[alokmahor]

I have tried this, not working for me