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I've Ubuntu 11.10 and my problem is about the touchpad. At the beginning of my computer it's works fine, but after opening an application or a few minutes, it stops working and I have to use a USB mouse. Someone could help me? Thank you very much:)

jrg
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Manuel Andrés Vélez
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There is another command that works, and is perhaps more direct:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse

The problem is that it is not a permanent solution. I already tried adding psmouse to the /etc/modules file, but the problem is not about the driver not loading, but crashing or something.

Does the unity replacement command work as a "permanent solution"?

Severo Raz
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If this happents, use Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and type:

synclient TouchpadOff=0
Peachy
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josh
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These solutions didn't work for me (running ubuntu 12.10). The thing that did the trick is:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true

Good luck!

Kris
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I had the same problem as well, the only thing that I did was in the terminal:

    unity --replace

after that it hasn't been an issue.

st2011
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I was sucessful with the wollowing treatment: I plugged in a USB mouse Navigate to the touchpad and mouse settings (top right button -> system settings -> Mouse and Touchpad) I then unchecked the disable mouse when typing option. Reboot.

Worked fine using this since! Perhaps there is some weird mouse locking issue related to this setting?

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