Sunday, July 31, 2011

How to enable your touch pad

I came across this problem when im working Ubuntu with my laptop. I noticed my touch pad is not working and i couldn't do any thing using my mouse. So I restart my machine and check but i couldn't find a way to re-enable the Synaptic Touchpad of my HP Pavilion Dv5. When im restaring my computer my i noticed my mouse works fine on the login screen, i was happy but after logged in again it doesn't work.

This can be happened when you suspend your computer with the disabled mouse pad(with the physical button ).

You can do this by using Gconf-editor GUI by Desktop -> Gnome -> peripherals -> touchpad then doing the Touch pad enable true

This is how you can do it by using terminal.

Command Line(Terminal) The Easy way
gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled 

Type this command and just press enter your mouse will work properly.

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