Getting Dell XPS Trackpad to work on Ubuntu Hardy
by nazham on
October 8th, 2008
I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix.
Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then add:
i8042.nomux=1
at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below:
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=446ea0c-57b1-4112-939c-
3f1d74be9f5f ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic [...]
Tags: Dell XPS M1530 . Touch pad . Track pad . Ubuntu
