Toshiba Satellite drivers for mouse pad mint 18.3

bruno.w.man · September 10, 2018, 2:39pm

Hi, anyone else having a problem getting their Toshiba Satellite mouse pad drivers?
A bit of a shlep having to carry an external mouse around, especially if one is on the go most days.
Maybe one of our brighter users could compile one?
Just hoping
Thanks in advance
Bruno

abhishek · September 11, 2018, 5:23am

Could you try installing synaptic:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

01101111 · September 12, 2018, 5:17am

i was having a similar issue with my aging thinkpad t60 running bodhi and got excited when i saw your suggestion earlier. finally had a chance to check it out and it worked thanks for the help

abhishek · September 12, 2018, 5:43am

Glad to be of help

bruno.w.man · September 12, 2018, 5:39pm

thanks abhishek, tried your suggestion but no joy.
Satellite C850-F74E
bruno

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01101111 · September 13, 2018, 5:41pm

also worked on my thinkpad T430s running ubuntu mate for the record it was a small wish for the trackpad to one-finger scroll and synaptic delivered

01101111 · December 11, 2018, 2:32am

still re-gifting this particularly helpful piece of advice on reddit and linuxquestions

bruno.w.man · December 3, 2019, 7:19am

Hi all, still had no success with this one, has anybody found a way of getting the mousepad working on a Toshiba Satellite?

01101111 · December 3, 2019, 7:57am

does the mousepad work at all?

kovacslt · December 3, 2019, 11:30am

You can try this:
In a terminal
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Then look for the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash"

Add the nomux parameter, so that it will look like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash i8042.nomux=1”

ctrl-X exits nano, and for the question about saving please answer yes.

run
sudo update-grub

then reboot.
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