Touchpad stops working in Mint 12

[cebalrai]

After an apparently random amount of time in Mint 12, my touchpad and buttons stop responding. The only way to recover them is with a reboot. The mouse has no problems. In Mint 11 the touchpad was perfectly fine. Any suggestions?

[serdarmutlu]

I have the same problem. It was fine with Mint 11 but today I installed Mint 12. Everything is fine except touch pad. Please don't suggest about function F7. My netbook is Acer Aspire One D250. Please help.

Thanks for your support.

[Pantsman]

I'm currently having the same problem. Went from Linux Mint 11 LXDE, where the touchpad worked fine, to Linux Mint 12, where it stops working at random times. While running the live installer, the touchpad wasn't working right from the start. I plugged in an external mouse to carry out the installation, which worked without a hitch. On subsequent boots, the touchpad works at first but then locks up after a few minutes.

The laptop is an Acer Aspire One D250, like that of the poster above.

[wolverine_tech]

Hi,

(I'm assuming that the touchpad options are set properly under 'Mouse Preferences')
Try installing gpointing-devices-settings and tweaking the trackpad settings from there.

On my ThinkPad T61, the touchpad stopped working in Ubuntu 11.10 & LM12 after working flawlessly for a while.
I installed gpointing-devices-settings and upon starting it for the first time, I found that the 'Disable touchpad' option was checked. (No clue why. The settings on Mouse Preferences were normal.) Upon unchecking that box, the trackpad has been working like a champ. Zero problems.

Hope that helps.

[tsbartle]

This worked for me, thanks!

Dell v13 running Mint 12 x64

[Pantsman]

This worked for me too!

[hitduizhang]

my touch pad not working too.

[resuni]

Didn't work for me. I'm on an Acer Aspire 5250 and that option was not checked in GPointing Device Settings.

[maverick17]

I installed gpointing-devices-settings and upon starting it for the first time, I found that the 'Disable touchpad' option was checked. (No clue why. The settings on Mouse Preferences were normal.) Upon unchecking that box, the trackpad has been working like a champ. Zero problems.

This fix also worked for me on my Asus K52J laptop with LM12. Thanks!

[jazz.h]

This also happened once on my Acer 722, on the login screen. I restarted and everything was OK then. No more these events afterwards.
Next time I'll try this.

[sherazade]

und noch mal: ich hab das gleiche problem, allerdings wird es schlimmer.
linux mint 12, 32 bit, neu installiert. erst hat das touchpad so nach und nach nicht mehr funktioniert, jetzt schaltet es sich gleich ab, sobald ich mich einlogge. davor hat nen restart geholfen.
übern gast-account geht es noch, aber das ist ja keine lösung
systemeinstellungen sind kontrolliert, haken ist nicht an.

[r0berto]

+1 fixed, so far. Time will tell as it is seemingly random when it drops.

[nspotorno]

Worked for me too !!
thanks pal

lenovo t61

[michelecic]

I had the same problem and installing gpointing-devices-settings worked for me as well (I had the "Disable Touchpad" option selected too). Thanks

[flanagan]

For those (especially with Acer laptops) who have tried the gpointing-devices method without success: Have you tried Fn-F7? That function key enables/disables the touchpad.

[peareater]

I can confirm that the gpointing-device-settings fix works on an Asus 1005HA netbook.

[avinashayyagari]

Worked well with VAIO CS17G
Thankyou very much!

[Iamghost]

can someone please direct to where I can learn how to install these types of files I searched around a bit and I'll keep searching but I'm having the touch pad problem and I the file I'm just brand new to all of this so I don't know what to do with a tar.gz file I extracted and did the configure but what do I do with the file that made?

[dagon]

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sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

[dagon]

I don't know what to do with a tar.gz file I extracted and did the configure but what do I do with the file that made?

I don't know what file you extracted and how. Nothing wrong in compiling from source but the package is in the repositories so you either type in the command I gave you above or open synaptic package manager and search gpointing-device-settings in there.