[Bug 1704612] [NEW] Touchpad is treated as wacom tablet after upgrade to 16.10

[jeremy-list]

Public bug reported:

After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10: the mouse cursor movements became
absolute (similar to Wacom tablets, but unable to reach the edges or
corners of the screen), rather than relative to where my finger was
initially placed on the touchpad. My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 310, but
https://askubuntu.com/questions/865690/ describes the same issue
happening on a Dell laptop.

Manually installing xserver-xorg-input-all resolved the issue, which
indicates that the decision to switch to xserver-xorg-hwe by default was
severely premature.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-58.63-generic 4.8.17
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.6
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jul 16 15:25:59 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-04 (133 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-07-16 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade yakkety

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Title:
  Touchpad is treated as wacom tablet after upgrade to 16.10

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.10: the mouse cursor movements became
  absolute (similar to Wacom tablets, but unable to reach the edges or
  corners of the screen), rather than relative to where my finger was
  initially placed on the touchpad. My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 310,
  but https://askubuntu.com/questions/865690/ describes the same issue
  happening on a Dell laptop.

  Manually installing xserver-xorg-input-all resolved the issue, which
  indicates that the decision to switch to xserver-xorg-hwe by default
  was severely premature.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:16.10.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-58.63-generic 4.8.17
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-58-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Sun Jul 16 15:25:59 2017
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-04 (133 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2017-07-16 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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