Touchpad Stops Working suddenly

[rushikesh988]

Hello friends I am using Acer Aspire One D257 Netbook and installed ubuntu 11.10
Touchpad problem is occuring to me from last 2 days...It stops working suddenly ... but everytime is happened I was using firefox...
I tried to uncheck mouse and touchpad setting ->disable touchpad while typing ...but still no effect...
touchpad doesn't work back evenif I exit firefox ...
the only way to get it work back is to restart ubuntu..

please help me ....

[charlesopondo]

I'm also experiencing the same problem today. My machine has been perfect until now. HP Probook 4330s running Ubuntu 11.10

[charlesopondo]

And as quickly as I experienced the problem I found at ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852081&page=3 that:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

fixes it for me!

[tjeremiah]

And as quickly as I experienced the problem I found at ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852081&page=3 that:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

fixes it for me!

this appears to work

[sledhead45]

I experience this also on my dell m1330. doing a ctrl+alt+t and:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

fixes it. Is there an official bug ticket for this issue? Slightly annoying.

[furnace]

Sorry to "me too" this but really, this is probably the most frustrating bug as far as simply using my computer is concerned!

I suspect there is some gesture or way to tap the pad or something to turn the touchpad off which I'm doing accidentally?

[sup]

The bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...on/+bug/868400

[CryptKeeper777]

And as quickly as I experienced the problem I found at ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852081&page=3 that:

synclient TouchpadOff=0

fixes it for me!

Made my day! (which won't last for more than ten more minutes, but whatever... )

These are the most annoying bugs: The system still runs perfectly, but you have to restart anyway... Same as when gnome shell crashes.

[fgimelli]

I'm wondering if I'm experiencing the same bug...

I am running 11.10 on an Asus EeePc, and so far I've had no problems (around 3 months) with the trackpad. This morning I turned on the machine, and the trackpad worked fine until I logged in to my user account, after which the trackpad seemed to stop responding completely.

I tried logging in to the guest account and in here the trackpad works without any trouble. Restarting the machine has no effect, so I could use your help, please.

[CryptKeeper777]

Have you tried typing "synclient TouchPadOff=0" in a terminal (or with Alt-F2)? That fixes the problem in my case (though of course, it only fixes the symptom of the actual problem, not the problem - the bug - itself, but that's enough for me since it doesn't happen that frequently).