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.