Just installed Ubuntu 13.10, touchpad not working.

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Someone asked this question in another forum; He says his touchpad doesn't even show up in xinput. I'm curious myself at to the solution. I'd
also like to get back to him with a solution. Any Linux guru's out there know, or can help direct us to a solution. Anything is much appriciated.

His post below:

Touchpad on Asus 1005HA

Just installed 13.10, touchpad not working. Made sure the Fn key didnt have it disabled and still nothing.

Here is xinput list

Code:

asus(at symbol)EeePC:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [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)]
↳ USB 2.0 Camera id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Eee PC WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

and lsmod

Code:

asus(at symbol)EeePC:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 12617 1
vesafb 13500 0
coretemp 13195 0
parport_pc 31981 0
ppdev 17391 0
eeepc_wmi 12983 0
asus_wmi 23495 1 eeepc_wmi
sparse_keymap 13708 1 asus_wmi
rfcomm 53664 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 50315 1
bnep 18959 2
bluetooth 323656 10 bnep,rfcomm
snd_hda_intel 42658 3
snd_hda_codec 164003 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 13272 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 89488 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 25094 1 snd_seq_midi
uvcvideo 71309 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13048 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13170 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 39125 1 uvcvideo
microcode 18894 0
videodev 107508 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core
snd_seq 55383 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
arc4 12536 2
ath9k 136361 0
serio_raw 13189 0
lpc_ich 16864 0
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
i915 594442 3
ath9k_common 13619 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 429197 2 ath9k_common,ath9k
ath 19187 3 ath9k_common,ath9k,ath9k_hw
mac80211 517444 1 ath9k
cfg80211 401762 3 ath,ath9k,mac80211
drm_kms_helper 46867 1 i915
snd_timer 24447 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm 242400 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd 60790 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_pcm, snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,sn d_seq_device,snd_seq_midi
soundcore 12600 1 snd
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 i915
video 18777 2 i915,asus_wmi
wmi 18590 1 asus_wmi
mac_hid 13037 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40795 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
hid_generic 12492 0
usbhid 47361 0
hid 87370 2 hid_generic,usbhid
usb_storage 48294 1
ahci 25579 2
libahci 26619 1 ahci
atl1c 40949 0

Touchpad is enabled through dconf and I tried
sudo modprobe -rv psmouse
sudo modprobe -v psmouse

Still nothing. Help would be very appreciated.

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