Synaptics touchpad on my Acer 4530 stop working

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i got my touchpad stop working after several hours being disabled (using Fn+F7 in my Acer 4530). i've tried many times to turn it on using the same key-combination (Fn+F7), although the touchpad indicator says it works, but the touchpad still not working

i wonder if anybody know how to fix this problem?

To avoid confusion, please edit your question title and tags to use "Synaptics". The graphical package manager that comes with Ubuntu is called "Synaptic" and your question is being presented in a list of package manager–related questions because of the tag. — dgw, Dec 16 '10 at 02:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 22 '10 at 21:45

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I had the same problem, touchpad worked for login screen but not once logged in. I got it going with

gconftool -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true

edited Dec 22 '10 at 21:45

Jorge Castro

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answered Dec 21 '10 at 23:48

I'm offering another possible solution as information, in the hope it could help someone, since this solution alone did not work for me. touchpad_enabled was indeed set to false, but there was another setting described here which I had to enable. Thanks for everything. – Steve-B Jun 11 '14 at 17:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '11 at 23:29

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pardon me i forgot to answer your responses & answers. Actually my touchpad had came back to life again. I just re-installed the X11 then after reboot it works again. I didn't know what wrong here in my system

answered Mar 22 '11 at 23:29

Dwi Ash

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You should accept your own answer (or whichever you like) so that this is shown as resolved. Thanks! – belacqua Mar 23 '11 at 04:12
oh ok thx, i'm a n00b here – Dwi Ash Mar 23 '11 at 04:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 15 '10 at 16:34

I have the same problem on my Acer Extensa 5635th Here I could take the touchpad running again because I have also installed Windows XP. In XP, the touchpad back on, switched to Ubuntu and it worked again.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 24 '11 at 21:23

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I had the same problem. I fixed it by disabling the touchpad with the button, then typing gconftool -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true, then re-enabling the button.

answered Feb 24 '11 at 21:23

Greg

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 28 '11 at 19:10

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sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

This works for me when I forget that the touchpad can be disabled, but not re-enabled again.

answered Apr 28 '11 at 19:10

Greg

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Synaptics touchpad on my Acer 4530 stop working

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