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TFroehlich3
February 14th, 2012, 04:36 PM
Hello Everyone!
I just installed 11.10 (64-bit) on my laptop and everything is working great except one thing, the mouse touchpad is not working, so right now I am using a USB wireless mouse. How can I fix this issue so I don't have to lug around a mouse every where I go.
jerrrys
February 15th, 2012, 06:07 AM
what kind of laptop
TFroehlich3
February 20th, 2012, 06:00 PM
what kind of laptop


HP Dv7-1245dx
Copper Bezel
February 21st, 2012, 12:42 AM
Weird. It's supposed to have a rather ordinary PS/2 trackpad. What do you see on the Touchpad tab of the Mouse Settings window?
TFroehlich3
February 21st, 2012, 01:38 AM
Weird. It's supposed to have a rather ordinary PS/2 trackpad. What do you see on the Touchpad tab of the Mouse Settings window?

I don't know what happened.. I installed Ubuntu on the system and it worked and then all of the sudden stopped. Then I posted this and then restarted the machine a few hours later and then everything was fine. Sooo it's all good now. Haha
Thanks for replying!:popcorn:
Copper Bezel
February 21st, 2012, 06:00 AM
Yeah, in that case, it was probably simply turned off. You might not have a hardware switch for the trackpad, but you probably have an Fn keystroke to turn it on and off.