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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johnathon Henney, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. As per http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/alienware-14/drivers an update to your BIOS is available (A09). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?  If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette
.

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so
posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't
have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, then please mark this report Status Confirmed.

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-a09

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Synaptic touchpad not working

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Under 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices' I see my touch pad listed, and the
  touch pad is on on all settings, but when i use 'xinput --test [val]'
  there is no response from the touch pad. This happened ever since I
  installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS no more than two months ago. I am running
  a Alienware 14 I got back in January.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: linux-image-3.13.0-39-generic 3.13.0-39.66
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  lifv       2222 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  lifv       2222 F.... pulseaudio
  Date: Tue Nov 11 18:32:36 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-26 (16 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  MachineType: Alienware Alienware 14
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB:
   0 inteldrmfb
   1 nouveaufb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-39-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=9fe920e5-7374-4415-9887-2db133b1c81c ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  PulseList:
   Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
   No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-39-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-39-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                             1.127.8
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 10/16/2013
  dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.bios.version: A06
  dmi.board.name: 07MJ2Y
  dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.board.version: A01
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
  dmi.chassis.version: A06
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA06:bd10/16/2013:svnAlienware:pnAlienware14:pvrA06:rvnAlienware:rn07MJ2Y:rvrA01:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA06:
  dmi.product.name: Alienware 14
  dmi.product.version: A06
  dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware

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