Touchpad Device Won't Re-Initialize After Hibernation

[Faylcon]

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?

[dawgdoc]

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.

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gedit ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/%gconf.xml

In my file the second line read as

<entry name="touchpad_enabled" mtime="1279592986" type="bool" value="false"/>

To fix the problem I changed false to true, saved and exited.