Ubuntu – How to enable touchpad

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Yesterday, suddenly my touchpad on my MSI Laptop started to not respond. In other words, in Login screen, touchpad is working as expected. However, in Desktop screen, after I have logged in, touchpad is not working.

How can I enable touchpad in Desktop?

Best Answer

Make sure that the Touchpad is enabled. On an MSI laptop to Enable or disable the touchpad: FN+F3.

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The problem could be caused by an IRQ conflict between your mouse and your touchpad. This is a Linux kernel bug (at least in 2.6.28) and as such it affects most distributions. An easy way to recover both mouse and touchpad functionality without having to restart your X server is restarting the mouse driver. Run the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

source: Dealing with mouse and touchpad freezes in Linux

I am currently using Linux kernel 3.0.0-16, so if this is indeed the same bug, I'm surprised it's still there.

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I found the solution! I found it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/667707 and a workaround from comment #3 worked.

sudo rmmod psmouse
sudo insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko

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