10.04 Lucid Touchpad only enabled at login

[Mad-Halfling]

Hi folks, got an odd problem. I've upgraded to lucid on an HP DV6000 series laptop, and my touchpad was working ok. I had WoW running under WINE and I pressed the touchpad toggle button. It froze the keyboard and touchpad completely. After a restart, my keyboard is back and the touchpad works fine (with the enable/disable toggle button) at the login screen, but as soon as I log in and get to my desktop the touchpad is disabled. Anything I can check or reset?

Thx

MH

[Mad-Halfling]

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps
from
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...cs/+bug/549727
seems to fix this once I'm logged in, how should I be running this?

[spicysur]

Hello. I am facing the same problem as well. Someone please shed some light on this.

Thx.

[crispy79]

Here is another thread on the subject showing where to put this work around so it loads on its own.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9209315

I need more touchpad configuration though. As it stands, my wife laptop touchpad is about twice as sensitive in the vertical movements than it is for horizontal movements and she is going to make me take this off her machine (it is dual booting with vista) if I don't sort it out soon.

[spicysur]

Thanks. That fixes the issue. However, I'm not able to locate /etc/modprobe.d/options.

[m_kelly]

On my laptop, the issue was a touchpad_enabled key in gconf which was set to false.

With the command line it can be fixed using:

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

[emilywind]

I would venture a guess that the issue which m_kelly experienced is what is affecting the OP and others in this thread. After all, it is something happening upon logging in which means it is a setting issue, and gconf handles all the settings in GNOME. His fix should be permanent and not a work-around requiring constant loading. Cheers.

[barinov2000]

On my laptop, the issue was a touchpad_enabled key in gconf which was set to false.

With the command line it can be fixed using:

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

+1
Awesome!

[Pitosgas]

Thanks m_kelly it worked!

[tzily]

Thank you m_kelly, it worked for me also :d