Hello! I just installed Kali a few days ago and I was hoping someone could help me resolve an issue I've been having involving my laptop's synaptics touchpad.
So to start off with I installed kali and freshly installed the trackpad did not work (It says there is no trackpad detected). So first I edited the sources list and did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade just to make sure Kali was fully updated
Code:
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free
So I updated to this version of kali: (My desktop environment is KDE)
So my touchpad was still not detected. I tried googling around to find some solutions. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and the xserver-xorg-input-libinput drivers multiple times (I even tried only having 1 installed at a time just to make sure this wasn't an issue of both drivers conflicting with each other)
I tried this solution that I found through google too:
Code:
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=imps
Which did not work.
This is the output of xinput:
Code:
Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech USB Optical Mouse id=12 [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)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Chicony USB 2.0 Camera id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
So it appears that my touchpad doesn't even appear here. (The USB Optical Mouse is the one I'm using right now since the touchpad isn't being detected)
So I'm out of ideas and would appreciate any help. Thank you!