I'm not totally sure what happened, but a few days ago, there seemed to be some sort of software update that happened on my laptop that, among also deleting all of my browser cookies, has also made my touchpad not work. I had touchpad-indicator installed as well (a GUI for enabling/disabling the touchpad), but even after uninstalling the problem did not go away.
There have been some similar questions to this, but none of the solutions provided have worked for me so far.
Here are the steps I've taken so far:
Confirmed that xinput
shows my Synaptics touchpad by doing xinput in the terminal
ran sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and replaced
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i8042.reset quiet splash"
saved the file and exited, then ran
sudo update-grub
and restarted my laptop.
I then tried the solution found in touchpad not working after system update and restarted my laptop, touchpad still not working.
Now, when I do xinput
, my touchpad no longer comes up! What should I do?