Touchpad not working after login in Ubuntu
- by Maria Mateescu
At some point my touchpad stopped working on Lenovo x220 under Ubuntu 11.10, after login.
I have found two possible solutions for that online, but neither of them work.
First,
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true
and a second one,
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Off" 8 0
After looking more carefully into xinput I have realized that
xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" outputs:
Device Enabled (132): 0
This field seems to be stuck to zero, because trying to set it back to 1 by:
xinput set-int-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Device Enabled" 8 1
doesn't seem to have any effect, e.g. I still have:
Device Enabled (132): 0
Any ideas? Thank you!