Touchpad doesn't work after logging in

Question

The touchpad of my laptop fails to work soon after I login to Ubuntu. I've gone through several threads in forums regarding the same matter and have tried out:

gconftool -set boolean ... command

I've even tried to reboot the system in recovery mode. I've unchecked the System -> Preferences -> Enable touchpad while key type and restarted as well.

None of the above methods which did work for few seem to work for me. Please help me. How can I fix the touchpad issue in Ubuntu 11.10 without a reinstall?

I am using 64 bit Oneiric, on an Dell Inspiron

Solution

I had similar issue, my touchpad was working in a super basic (move and click only) mode.

After reading all the comments on https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/550625/ I got it to work by installing Seth's psmouse-alps-dkms_0.10_all.deb from comment #492:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/550625/comments/492

Now I have:

• touchpad preferences in system settings
• two finger vertical and horizontal scroll
• tow finger right-click

My touchpad is "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad".

Find out your touchpad brand running:

xinput list

good luck!

Luciano