Synaptics touchpad on my Acer 4530 stop working

Question

i got my touchpad stop working after several hours being disabled (using Fn+F7 in my Acer 4530). i've tried many times to turn it on using the same key-combination (Fn+F7), although the touchpad indicator says it works, but the touchpad still not working

i wonder if anybody know how to fix this problem?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 22 '10 at 21:45

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I had the same problem, touchpad worked for login screen but not once logged in. I got it going with

gconftool -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true

edited Dec 22 '10 at 21:45

Jorge Castro

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answered Dec 21 '10 at 23:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '11 at 23:29

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pardon me i forgot to answer your responses & answers. Actually my touchpad had came back to life again. I just re-installed the X11 then after reboot it works again. I didn't know what wrong here in my system

answered Mar 22 '11 at 23:29

Dwi Ash

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 15 '10 at 16:34

I have the same problem on my Acer Extensa 5635th Here I could take the touchpad running again because I have also installed Windows XP. In XP, the touchpad back on, switched to Ubuntu and it worked again.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 24 '11 at 21:23

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I had the same problem. I fixed it by disabling the touchpad with the button, then typing gconftool -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true, then re-enabling the button.

answered Feb 24 '11 at 21:23

Greg

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 28 '11 at 19:10

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

This works for me when I forget that the touchpad can be disabled, but not re-enabled again.

answered Apr 28 '11 at 19:10

Greg

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Synaptics touchpad on my Acer 4530 stop working

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