Touchpad not working after login in Ubuntu

Posted by Maria Mateescu on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Maria Mateescu
Published on 2012-02-01T18:36:29Z Indexed on 2012/04/15 11:34 UTC
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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!

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