Synaptics drivers are not loading on Kubuntu 13.10 on Dell Vostro 2420

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Published on 2013-12-30T14:31:26Z Indexed on 2014/08/19 4:32 UTC
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I freshly installed Kubuntu 13.10, 32 bit version on newly purchased Dell Vostro 2420. everything is working fine except scrolling and multitouch features through touchpad. I am able to change position of cursor using touchpad and able to tap (single click and double click) but scrolling is not working

I tried to find out solution by searching on google but could not find proper solution to load synaptics drivers.

i am listing some details: Laptop: Dell Vostro 2420 Linux Kernel version and distribution: 3.11.0-12-generic, Kubuntu 13.10

output of xinput list is

? Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
? ? Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
? ? PS/2 Generic Mouse id=12 [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)] ? Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_HD id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ? AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave keyboard (3)] ? Dell WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]

Output of synclient -l is

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

output of lshw is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/6645687/

xserver log and dmesg dont have trace of synaptics

kindly tell me how to troubleshoot this problem.

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