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Good day to all,

I am using a Toshiba Satellite P745 installed with Ubuntu 14.04. I suddenly cannot use my laptop's touchpad to move my cursor, but if I am using a USB mouse, it is working perfectly. I followed this guide in order to check whether the touchpad is enabled using dconf-editor, but it is already enabled.

 if dconf-editor is not installed,

     sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

     then go to setting-->org-->gnome-->settings-daemon-->peripherals-->touchpad

     and set touchpad-enabled to true

I also tried to use the FN-F5 / FN-F9 functionality of Toshiba laptops, but it still did not work.

I also tried a suggestion made by help.ubuntu, in order to fix this problem regarding the touchpad, you must run this certain command via terminal (it is somehow similar to dconf-editor), and it did not work at all.

gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true

Lastly, I tried to verify whether my touchpad is recognized via terminal

xinput --list

it returned the id of my touchpad which is 13, and by doing

xinput --list-props 13

I was able to get further information regarding my touchpad, and with the results that I got, it clearly states that my touchpad is enabled

Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (141):   1

Based from this result, it means that my touchpad is enabled. Why is it then that my touchpad is not working?

I would greatly appreciate anyone who would be able to help me fix this problem.

Source for the dconf-editor installation:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/199581/my-toshiba-touchpad-not-working

Thank you.

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This also happen to my laptop after I've installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.2. The solution for my problem was (perhaps this would also work for you) to install the following package.

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

Because this package is not automatically installed by default. I don't know why they don't do this by default. Hope it works for you as well. Cheers.

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