[SOLVED] Mint fresh install touchpad doesnt work

[deepakdeshp]

I had Una installed and touchpad was working. I did a fresh install of Vanessa and touchpad doesnt work. The double click on touchpad doesnt work. I have to use left mouse click on the touchpad instead. The problem was same with default kernel version of Vanessa and the latest Mainline kernel version.
Any clues please?

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 inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.17.0-1015-oem x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.9 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8137 v: 99.47 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde
    v: F.21 date: 02/24/2016
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 33.1 Wh (83.0%) condition: 39.9/39.9 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 16.7 min: 14.6 model: 131-42-6E HS04041 status: Charging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: AMD E1-6015 APU with Radeon R2 Graphics bits: 64
    type: MCP arch: Jaguar rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1212 high: 1382 min/max: 800/1400 boost: disabled
    cores: 1: 1043 2: 1382 bogomips: 5589
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini [Radeon HD 8240 / R3 Series] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: radeon v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.0
  Device-2: Suyin HP Truevision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: ati,radeon
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: radeon resolution: 1366x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 2.50 5.17.0-1015-oem)
    v: 4.5 Mesa 22.0.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Kabini HDMI/DP Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:01.1
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.0-1015-oem running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8723be v: kernel port: 3000
    bus-ID: 01:00.0
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 3-4:2
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 43.28 GiB (9.3%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS545050A7E680
    size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 105.18 GiB used: 13.46 GiB (12.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 167.8 MiB (65.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 57.5 C mobo: 20.0 C gpu: radeon temp: 55.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 201 Uptime: 13m Memory: 7.23 GiB used: 1.43 GiB (19.8%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 11.2.0 Packages: 2130 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13
  

[deepakdeshp]

I restored the Clonezilla backup to another HP laptop . Here also same problem. It's really frustrating when touchpad worked on Mint 20.3 on both.
I stalled 5.15 kernel with no change.

[deepakdeshp]

The solution was rather simple. In settings--mouse and touchpad- I enabled tap to click and everything is working. I dont know why the problem wasnt reported widelty and only me faced it.widely. I did spend some hours till I got the solution.

[karlos]

Hello!
Actually you helped me out, so everything in its right place
Thank you, and wish you a good day.

[deepakdeshp]

Hello!
Actually you helped me out, so everything in its right place
Thank you, and wish you a good day.

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