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I've Ubuntu 11.10 and my problem is about the touchpad. At the beginning of my computer it's works fine, but after opening an application or a few minutes, it stops working and I have to use a USB mouse. Someone could help me? Thank you very much:)

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  • I am experiencing the exact same behaviour... but uncheck of 'disable touchpad when typing' option didn't help at all. I have ps/2 touch pad before log in (can mouse to password field on gdm). When I log in, mouse immediately stops working. rmmod / modprobe doesnt' seem to help.
    – user31489
    Oct 31, 2011 at 2:12

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Reset to default
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There is another command that works, and is perhaps more direct:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse

The problem is that it is not a permanent solution. I already tried adding psmouse to the /etc/modules file, but the problem is not about the driver not loading, but crashing or something.

Does the unity replacement command work as a "permanent solution"?

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  • are you talking about unity --replace for me it did.
    – st2011
    Oct 23, 2011 at 0:46
  • This worked for me!
    – Kasun Gajasinghe
    Dec 21, 2011 at 6:45
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If this happents, use Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal and type:

synclient TouchpadOff=0
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    This is the best answer. I used to use the modprobe method, but in 12.04, it causes unity or even X to crash. This one does not even need to be root!
    – Ryan Reich
    Apr 29, 2012 at 21:16
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I had the same problem as well, the only thing that I did was in the terminal:

    unity --replace

after that it hasn't been an issue.

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  • Perfect... also replacing the synaptic drivers! :D ;) Thanks
    – Manuel Andrés Vélez
    Oct 18, 2011 at 0:37
  • @ManuelAndrésVélez I also have the same problem. Can you tell me how you replaced the synaptic driver?
    – Kasun Gajasinghe
    Dec 21, 2011 at 6:29
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    This is total overkill -- replace the entire desktop just for one driver?
    – Ryan Reich
    Apr 29, 2012 at 21:16
  • I'm on 12.04, and this doesn't do anything for me.
    – Cerin
    Dec 31, 2013 at 3:07
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These solutions didn't work for me (running ubuntu 12.10). The thing that did the trick is:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true

Good luck!

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I was sucessful with the wollowing treatment: I plugged in a USB mouse Navigate to the touchpad and mouse settings (top right button -> system settings -> Mouse and Touchpad) I then unchecked the disable mouse when typing option. Reboot.

Worked fine using this since! Perhaps there is some weird mouse locking issue related to this setting?

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  • Although this wasn't exactly the fix for my mouse freeze, this helped in solving the issue on my Xubuntu, which was Enable this device option on the Mouse Settings dialog was getting unchecked everytime I login. Clicking on Restore Defaults fixed the issue. Never thought using the UI would be simpler, wasted time mucking around with conf files. Thanks!
    – legends2k
    Mar 4, 2015 at 22:41

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