Touchpad does not work on Acer Aspire I have an Acer Aspire on which I installed Linux Mint 17.2. The touchpad does not work at all; xinput doesn't even list any touchpad unit at all. Probably a driver issue, is there some way to make it work?

The solution: add `i8042.nopnp` to the kernel command line. To do this:


sudoedit /etc/default/grub


and add:


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"


If there's already a line with `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=…`, add `i8042.nopnp` inside the quotes, separated from any other word within the quotes by a space, e.g.


GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="some-other=option i8042.nopnp"


Then run


sudo update-grub


and reboot. Hope it works, it worked for me!