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My mother has a problem with her ThinkPad L520 notebook (Ubuntu 11.10, Unity).
She boots the device, everything works fine at first. But then, out of nowhere, her touchpad + trackpoint stop working. She can't click or drag the mouse. If she connects an external mouse, she can move the pointer and click (but the internal touchpad or trackpoint still don't work).
She already updated everything through the update manager, but still no success...like I said, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
There are no 'special' mouse drivers installed.
What can I do to fix this?

Thank you for your help! :)

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  • okay, I continued to search for a solution, another person told me to type 'unity --replace' into my terminal. unfortunately the problem still persists. any other recommendations?
    – yesyoar
    Apr 11, 2012 at 13:32

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I had the exact same problem/config, typing

synclient TouchpadOff=0

in a terminal solved it.

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Simply uninstalled trackpoint on 'Device manager' (make sure not to delete the drivers from the system is unticked) and restarted PC,drivers got re-installed and issue is now resolved. Simplez =)

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  • Hi @Bobby, welcome to ask.ubuntu, you answer seems promising, do you mind editing it to include the relevant commands? Oct 19, 2016 at 15:50

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