I just installed Ubuntu 24.04 and it is nice and fast! But unfortunately, the touchpad doesn’t seem to be working in it. I even reseated the touchpad just in case (it works fine in Windows 11). The touchpad doesn’t even show up in the Settings app. Any ideas? From what I read, the drivers should already be part of the kernel. I’m current on updates too.
Ok, I’m not sure how it fixed itself. I later installed Fedora 40 to another partition and then came back to Ubuntu. This time the trackpad was working, and both the mouse and trackpad settings were present in the dialog. Very odd.
The missing touchpad functionality is still broke on my Ubuntu 24 installation on most boots. Only rarely does it work. The touchpad works consistently on Fedora 40. Both are current with updates too.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix this?
Hi @egsavage ,
I’ve Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop since a week or so too on my Framework 13 i7-1280P and don’t have any issue with the trackpad. It is always showing up in the settings and working well.
I hope you will be able to fix it somehow.
Best,
Jurjen
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That is good to hear. I honestly don’t know why the issue comes and goes.,
I seem to have the same problem using 24.04 on my Framework 16 as well. 23.10 I never had trouble, but as soon as I upgraded to 24.04 it started failing to bring up the touch pad and I use Kubuntu (KDE) so it is even a different desktop environment. Right now it is working, but on some boots or when it resumes from sleep the touch pad is unavailable. Rebooting doesn’t seem to help, but a cold boot from power off usually resolves it more often for me.
I had similar symptoms, Ubuntu 24.04. Touchpad not working even in a live boot from USB, the only thing that showed up in settings > mouse & touchpad was “primary button”, keyboard was still working, and an external USB mouse worked fine.
In my case it turned out to be the “mid plate connector” physically coming unseated. Removing the touchpad and keyboard, and pressing the mid plate connector back into place worked, or at least some other side effect of reseating it did.
This has happened intermittently to me as well.
Same Problem here, after Updating Kubuntu to 24.04. Did work with Ubuntu, Mint and Kubuntu 22.04 and 23.xx.
Solved (I hope, worked after rebooting after failing twice) by following the suggestion in https://community.frame.work/t/solved-ubuntu-23-04-doesnt-recognize-touchpad-properly/ to blacklist the ps2 mouse
echo "blacklist psmouse" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Strangely enough it did work in the live ‘cd’ (usb) from which I installed.
Welcome to the community!
To confirm, this issues has resolved itself and may I ask which kernel you happen to be on?
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Thank you, @Matt_Hartley .
Uname -
Linux sequential 6.8.0-38-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jun 7 15:25:01 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
apologies for the brief reply. I got a bunch of 403 errors attempting to post. Yes, has resolved, I assume “blacklist psmouse” did it, but I did that right after installing (installed ubuntu 24.04 on tuesday after assembling the laptop, which was good fun). I followed your ubuntu 24.04 on the framework 16 guide @Matt_Hartley . The guide works, including the fingerprint reader.
FYI: good call on pointing out the battery settings. I did similar on another laptop, and its battery is still good after 5 years.