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I have a thinkpad t460. This morning when I was using the touchpad it was working fine, I closed the lid, came back an hour later and the touchpad has stopped working.

I have tried restarting, trying a different kernel version but still the same problem.

Not entirely sure where to start on fixing this

It may be relevant to know that the red nipple thing in the middle works, which is how I am managing to navigate this site right now.

I also booted into Windows where the touchpad worked fine.

xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint id=13 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Sleep Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ Integrated Camera id=9 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]

synclient Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

sudo modprobe -rv psmouse && sudo modprobe -v psmouse rmmod psmouse insmod /lib/modules/4.4.0-28-generic/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko

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Anyone still experiencing this problem can try updating their kernel to the latest version, I tried everything else and that was the solution for me. Just use the commands

sudo apt-get install linux-image-4.11.0-14-lowlatency linux-headers-4.11.0-14-lowlatency

Obviously this installs the 4.11.0.14 lowlatency kernel which is currently the latest but you can choose your version - usually pressing tab while at typing in the version gives some options. When booting it should automatically choose the newest installed kernel but you can otherwise select advanced ubuntu options from the grub boot menu and select the kernel from there.

Warren Scantlebury
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