Hp Synaptics Touchpad Driver Download

[Annette Fazzari]

MySynaptics touchpad driver disappeared. Which is a pain, because I like the ability to toggle between the mouse and touchpad, but even better I like the feature of turning off the touchpad when a mouse connection is detected. So now I have a piece of paper taped over the touchpad because HP's fancy touchpad design, didn't include a hardware button to turn it off. Note that the double tap doesn't turn it off either (how could it, with the driver missing?).

Initially a major Win10 update overwrote my Synaptics TP driver. I was able to rollback the driver update, and Synaptics driver reappeared. Next Win10 update same thing. This time when I tried to rollback the update the driver just disappeared. Now, I have no touchpad driver, not even the default MS driver. From my Device Manager:

Well that is weird, because there is no driver installed per Device Manager. So I went to Add/Remove and found the "Synaptics Clickpad Driver Driver", and tried to uninstall, and received this error message:

I appreciate your efforts to try and resolve the issue. I would suggest performing system factory reset will put the computer back to the original factory settings in this way all corrupted and outdated software will be removed.

Restoring Files that were Backed Up Using HP Recovery Manager (Windows)You can also contact HP support for assistance. They can remotely access your system to help alleviate difficulties: www.hp.com/contacthp/

I went through all the recommended steps, did the latest recommended Windows update. Checked Troubleshooting and updated the BIOS. I reviewed all the Yellow messages, which really were suggested HP features. But went through them all. Tried the Virtual Support assistant which didn't help, as it assumed the Synaptics driver was installed. Did the system test for the Mouse/Touchpad, but that is just a drag & drop test, which works fine, and is not the issue I am having. So after going through all this, I still don't have the right driver installed for my touchpad. (Setting/Devices/Touchpad/Additional Settings). I've been to Touchpad Troubleshooting, and I cannot install a new driver as recommended, because a corrupted driver is still there.

Thanks for the recommendation. A factory reset is a big task to fix a small problem -- a lot of squeeze for not a lot of juice. Besides backing-up my documents/files, there are also the other programs and devices that have been installed. Can't I run the Reset with the Keep My Files option? Will this also work?

But the biggest problem is that it does not address the issue of MS overwriting existing drivers. This will happen again during the next big Win10 update. After doing a little research, there is a setting where you can turn off driver updates. Here is the article: -to-stop-windows-10-updating-device-drivers. Of course the problem is that this will wholesale prevent driver updates, some of which may be necessary for security or bug issues. Choose your poison. There's gotta be a better way.

I would request you to contact our Support and our Support Engineers should be able to Remote into your computer and sort this out. HP Support can be reached by clicking on the following link: www.hp.com/contacthp/

Synaptics' TouchPad device drivers are customized and supported by notebook manufacturers to meet specific driver requirements for their individual products. To ensure the appropriate driver for your device, always use the driver your specific notebook OEM supports.

Synaptics has a rich heritage in capacitive touch sensing, dating back to 1995 and our launch of the first notebook PC TouchPad. Today touchpads are ubiquitous, and we continue to innovate and advance technologies that strive to perfect the user experience.

On Ubuntu 14.04 I just set vertical and horizontal hysteresis and high and low finger pressure to make touchpad feel smooth and nice. When I installed 18.04 I found that I can't adjust my touchpad any more (except a few options that are not too helpful in my case).

The synaptics config file can be copied to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and given a higher number than the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d synaptics.conf default. Then the synaptics touchpad driver overrides the libinput touchpad driver by having a higher priority.

I ran into problem after installing synaptics touchpad in ubuntu 18.04. My keyboard stopped working. So, I booted into the system (keyboard was working on login screen), mouse was working properly so I opened my mails from the history (I saved the commands in the mails using my mobile), I copied the following commands with enter (empty line after the commands):

Note: Save the commands with an empty line using enter at the end of commands. This will help commands to execute directly without pressing enter while copy pasting in terminal, if the keyboard is not working.

The problem is not necessarily the missing Synaptics drivers, it is more the fact that the libinput driver settings are purposefully left generic so that the user or hardware OEM can adjust them as desired.

Rather than simply uninstalling libinput and installing Synaptics, you can still add Synaptics but to keep everything working you need to provide an "override" by removing/updating references to libinput specifically in relation to your touchpad ONLY and adding in a rule for Synaptics.

A major part of the problem is that there doesn't appear to be any proper GUI tool and few of the hardware OEMs (Dell/HP/Lenovo/etc) provide customized configs optimized to their hardware outside the possible exception of their own preinstalled Ubuntu versions (Dell provides this option at least). I haven't grabbed the latest Dell Ubuntu image and unpacked it to see if they supply any customizations, but it wouldn't surprise me if they did. If not I definitely think it is something they should see about adding, since the XPS13/XPS15 and their business brothers the Precision 55x0 models are amazingly fast running Ubuntu compared to Windows.

This article by Dell has a good start on how to potentially fix the issue (and doesn't necessarily only apply to their systems or their touchpads), -xps-ubuntu-general-touchpad-mouse-issue-fix?lang=en

I am using lubuntu Release 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) with 64-bit Kernel Linux 5.8.0-63-generic x86_64. My laptop is Dell inspiron i5 3567 I have been using it since a year and was working well, but today I opened my laptop and noticed while on terminal that my up arrow key has been continuously pressed I have never faced such implication, so in a hurry I powered it off and opened laptop's back lid and removed the keyboard and cleaned it (there was too much dirt) after fixing all the screws I booted it again and still the problem was not solved reinstalling the driver which was libinput by default using the command

I edited the file 40-libinput.conf and turned off all the MatchIs options to off then restarted the pc and checked the command xinput list now everything was ok my trackpad changed to Synaptics and now my keyboard isn't having any problem.

I experienced a similar issue after trying to solve it for a month, I finally found the workaround: simply remove all libinput (except for libinput-bin and libinput10:amd64) and synaptics related packages and install evdev using the following command:

Note that this obviously did not install synaptics as the title requires. And this solution may break your touchpad (have not fully tested it), but it works extremely well with touchpoint. Hope it helps (as all above solutions didn't actually solve my problem).

I have two laptops. One dell Vostro and other Vaio Z. Both have Synaptics (Yes, I have checked, and the original drivers were from Synaptics as well). On both laptops, the touchpad scrolling stops working at some arbitrary time and nothing seems to solve it except a reboot. Sometimes, it randomly starts working again. I have downloaded all latest drivers from OEM.

This problem is very odd. It happens without any reason and I've not been able to find a fix for more than a year. I have seen some unusual suggestions on forums (e.g., to "restore windows to a previous working state") but never any fix that solves this issue properly. I have tried installing latest drivers and I DO NOT want to restore windows to a previous working configuration.

EDIT: Temporary solution is to uninstall the synaptics driver and let Windows 7 use its default built in one. However, I really prefer the Synaptic driver because it activates the scroll button rather than the mouse wheel (useful in some apps)

I found the best way to fix it is to simply plug in a mouse, then right click on the panel on the bottom right, and choose "Hardware Settings" and then you can see the mouse pad, if its shut off and disabled you can use a mouse to re-enable it. Its the only thing that I know that works for sure. But if you are having a problem that isn't like that, I'm not too sure how else but to remove it and use windows default mouse pad driver. But before going that far just try enabling it if its disabled, and if its not, then try disabling it and re-enabling it. should work. does for me at least.

I've found that it's SynTPEnh.exe what causes it. (now I have shortcut in start to restart it)If you kill it and restart, it's working again for a while.On my PC it was freezing only with windows 8 driver with swipes from edges.I downloaded latest one from syn's site and hoped, it will be gone, but now it occurs more often.

I've been attempting to solve an issue on my ThinkPad T420 laptop, namely trying to force X to use the Synaptics touchpad driver instead of evdev. The main issue is that my touchpad is sometimes (actually quite frequently) detected as a mouse by the system instead of a touchpad - as demonstrated with xinput below. Previous searches online for solutions give nothing other than "file a bug report" and "update your kernel" (I am using the newest linux-zen kernel - the newest version of linux and linux-lts kernels don't make a difference), so I had to find a workaround through modprobe. Reloading the psmouse module will fix the issue half the time, half the time it will do nothing. As a result, I've been attempting to write a shell script executed by a systemd service on boot to repeatedly reload the psmouse module on boot until the Synaptics driver has been loaded correctly, but to no avail. My main difficulty is writing the condition to stop the script once the Synaptics driver has been loaded - having tried to grep Xorg.0.log and using the exit status of synclient has not worked thus far - any ideas?

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