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I turned my touchpad off on my laptop from the system settings. This was because I had a mouse plugged into my USB Hub and the touchpad bugged my occasionally. I almost immediately realized that I'd need to turn it back on before going mobile with my laptop where I wouldn't have a mouse.

When I tried to turn it back on, I noticed that there were no touchpad settings in the system settings mouse area anymore, gone, not there.

I tried xinput list, but the touchpad wasn't in the list. I tried the synclient command with no luck.

The mouse still works fine, but I can't turn the touchpad back on.

Any ideas?

John Ervin
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  • I have recycled the system several times and that didn't seem to solve the problem. – John Ervin Mar 25 '17 at 02:37
  • similar question: http://askubuntu.com/questions/335317/deactivated-touchpad-how-to-activate , see if this helps or not –  Mar 25 '17 at 02:38

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Nevermind. I found it inactivated in the bios. I activated it there and it reappears (obviously) in the system settings where I was able to turn it back on.

John Ervin
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