Trackpad does not work when Desktop loads

**Edwinem** · September 4th, 2010

So I have used ubuntu for about 2 years now, and this has never been an issue. Basically my trackpad(touchpad) on my laptop stops working when the wallpaper and other gui aspects load. The mouse works in windows and works in ubuntu for a few seconds while the screen is still black and gui is loading. So I know ubuntu does know it exists.

This problem occured after watching a movie and ubuntu froze up. Also while watching the movie I had the trackpad disabled, which might have something to do with my problem. (I have a hpdv6500 which has a button on the trackpad to disable it. I did no software tricks or hacks to do it). After resetting my computer the problem existed and persists every time I turn it on and off. So does anyone have any experience with such a problem or maybe how to reset the settings of the mouse?

**jcphil** · September 4th, 2010

I am having a similar problem with my mouse. Right-clicks may work at first, but later have no effect. I'm finding that clicking around in the Gnome panel may bring it back...for awhile. Try right-clicking anywhere in the panel that will give you a pulldown. Select "About" from the pulldown. That somehow toggles it for me. But then clicks in the panel will have no effect. But eventually, this also ceases to work. I'm running a Logitech Trackball mouse, which is just standard PS2. The problem started in 10.04, so I upgraded to 10.10 and things are no better. I don't see any logging that gives me a clue, not in Xorg.0.log nor in messages.