I have a Gateway MX6121 laptop running Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) and everything is flawless save one item. I can close the lid (suspending/hibernating the system), and when I reopen, all is good except for the touchpad. It will not initialize. I have to end my session, then log back in to get it to work.
The device shows up as: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Any ideas?
Touchpad Device Won't Re-Initialize After Hibernation
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Touchpad Device Won't Re-Initialize After Hibernation
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Re: Touchpad Device Won't Re-Initialize After Hibernation
I had something similar happen to me the other day. It was after I showed someone how the the button at the top of the pad could turn the touchpad on and off. All was well until I hibernated the laptop. When I roused it the keyboard and touchpad were locked. A full shut down and restart re-initialized the keyboard. To get the touchpad back I had to edit a config file.
First let's make sure you can not fix this with the GUI. > Menu > Preferences > Mouse then click on the <Touchpad> tab, if Scrolling is not enabled, enable it and see if that solves the problem.
If not solved using the gui, enter this in terminal.
In my file the second line read as
First let's make sure you can not fix this with the GUI. > Menu > Preferences > Mouse then click on the <Touchpad> tab, if Scrolling is not enabled, enable it and see if that solves the problem.
If not solved using the gui, enter this in terminal.
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gedit ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/%gconf.xml
To fix the problem I changed false to true, saved and exited.<entry name="touchpad_enabled" mtime="1279592986" type="bool" value="false"/>