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The touchpad suddenly stopped working in my HP Pavilion laptop. External mouse works. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10. What are my options?

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It started working when I tried this: superuser.com/questions/136568/… But now the Touchpad tab in the Mouse preferences dialog is gone :S – thameera Feb 26 '11 at 11:59
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I recommend you use " touchpad-indicator" - an indicator applet for easily managing your touchpad. Installation instructions are given in this link.

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/touchpad-indicator-now-automatically.html

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I installed this and removed the edit I mentioned previously. After a restart, it works fine now. Dunno what happened. Thanks anyway! – thameera Feb 26 '11 at 13:04
you are welcome. – tinhed Feb 26 '11 at 14:44
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Is there another source to download the app from? the code "sudo apt-get install touchpad-indicator" no longer works. – Matthew Wilson Jan 7 at 13:05
And ... it works on the 12.04 beta 2, also, which means it will probably work as well when 12.04 LTS is released. – Kelley Apr 20 at 17:24
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