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Yesterday, suddenly my touchpad on my MSI Laptop started to not respond. In other words, in Login screen, touchpad is working as expected. However, in Desktop screen, after I have logged in, touchpad is not working.

How can I enable touchpad in Desktop?

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Have you tried, the FN + function key combination? – Mitch Jul 4 '12 at 7:04
Which one ? I am using MSI – gcc Jul 4 '12 at 8:58
@Mitch make this as answer, it works – gcc Jul 4 '12 at 9:39

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Make sure that the Touchpad is enabled. On an MSI laptop to Enable or disable the touchpad: FN+F3.

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You could try the following command in a terminal and see if it helps, I always used it to restart the touchpad on 11.10 when it stopped working, but I have had no problems on 12.04. 

synclient Touchpadoff=0
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I have tried but touchpad is still not work – gcc Jul 4 '12 at 8:53
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I don't recall having this problem in 12.04 either but running the gpointing-device-settings command and unchecking Disable touchpad always did it for me in 11.10.

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I have tried but touchpad is still not work – gcc Jul 4 '12 at 8:54

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