sony vaio tap touchpad - not able to click

[stoofman]

Hello guys,

I have a sony vaio tap installed with linux mint 21. This machine looks like a tablet with touchscreen and comes with a bluetooth keyboad + touchpad.
The touchpad works to move the mouse pointer around, but I cannot use the buttons to click. Tapping the touchpad also does not work.
I tried enabling tap to click in the mouse settings , no joy.
Any ideas ?
thanks

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
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- Make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- Copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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[stoofman]

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.8 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
    base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Sony product: SVT11221KR1A v: C10JESH9
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Sony model: VAIO serial: <superuser required> UEFI-[Legacy]: Insyde
    v: R1080V8 date: 10/07/2013
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 23.6 Wh (79.2%) condition: 29.8/30.4 Wh (98.0%)
    volts: 2.7 min: 7.5 model: SONY Corp. VGP-BPS39 status: Charging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 3.74 GiB used: 1.58 GiB (42.3%)
  RAM Report:
    permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Pentium 3560Y bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell
    rev: 1 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 599 min/max: 600/1200 cores: 1: 599 2: 599
    bogomips: 4788
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel vendor: Sony driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Device-2: Acer Front Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-3:3
  Device-3: Realtek Rear Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-4:3
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1368x768~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4200 (HSW GT2)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0
  Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Sony driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-41-generic 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: Intel Wireless 7260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 02:00.0
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 2-6:4
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 5 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 119.24 GiB used: 24.78 GiB (20.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZMTE128HMGR-000SO size: 119.24 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 116.32 GiB used: 12.39 GiB (10.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 512 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /home/user size: 116.32 GiB used: 12.39 GiB (10.6%) fs: ecryptfs
    source: ERR-102
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 403.3 MiB (19.7%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 2182
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
  Processes: 311 Uptime: 3h 14m Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13

[Joe2Shoe]

See the "Touchpad drivers" section of the Release Notes:
https://linuxmint.com/rel_vanessa_cinnamon.php

[stoofman]

the touchpad itself works and tried this

apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

still not able to click, it makes no difference

[Z_WAY]

I have the same problem, have you find a solution yet?