When I move the touchpad right, the pointer moves left. When I move the touchpad left, the pointer moves right. When I move the touchpad up, the pointer moves down. When I move the touchpad down, the pointer moves up. The mouse pointer itself is upside-down. I'm not sure I understand xinput well enough to get a working pointer situation, several matracies have been attempted. Workaround attempted: Display itself was sideways, until I updated as below: root@felix:/etc/lightdm# grep -B 1 greeter_setup.sh lightdm.conf [Seat:*] greeter-setup-script=/etc/lightdm/greeter_setup.sh root@felix:/etc/lightdm# ls -ld greeter_setup.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Sep 21 21:12 greeter_setup.sh root@felix:/etc/lightdm# cat greeter_setup.sh #!/bin/bash xrandr -o right exit 0 root@felix:/etc/lightdm# However, righting the video did not make the pointer any more usable. However, remaining are: