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x201 Ultranav lower mouse buttons & touchpad stopped working
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:36 pm
by kennyschiff
Am running Ubuntu 10.10 on an X201. I often use my machine docked, but today was intending to use it undocked when I discovered that the touchpad and lower buttons are not working at all. The trackpoint works fine, as does thie buttons below the space bar. Machine is not dual boot, so it's hard to determine whether this is physical or OS related. Anyone else run into this?
Re: x201 Ultranav lower mouse buttons & touchpad stopped working
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:14 pm
by dr_st
Did you try rebooting to see whether it's a one-time glitch?
Is the touchpad enabled in the BIOS?
Re: x201 Ultranav lower mouse buttons & touchpad stopped working
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:20 am
by kennyschiff
It turns out this is a common problem. I found a solution here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
This particularly did the trick...
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true