[hardy] Cannot unlock touchpad FSC V5505

[cbrmichi]

I got a Fujitsu Siemens v5505. I can LOCK the touchpad by pressing FN+F6, but I cannot UNLOCK it. so i have to boot windows to be able to unlock the touchpad.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi cbrmichi,

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? (ISOs are available from cdimage.ubuntu.com)

If it remains an issue, could you also attach a new /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
Thanks in advance.

The output of lspci -vvnn would also be worth having.

[cbrmichi (cbrmichi)]

Hi Bryce,

i attached a zip file with the outputs of 3 different tries.
at first, i locked the touchpad. i could not unlock die touchpad, so i connected my mouse and did a reboot. after reboot the touchpad was unlocked. i disconnected the mouse, did a X restart and then copied the output. so i saved the output (directory "trackpad") and did another try.

so i locked the touchpad one more time and rebootet without connecting a mouse and saved the output (directory "no touchpad").
after that i connected my mouse and rebootet one more time. but now the touchpad was not unlocked. because the Xorg.0.log was a little bit different i attached this outputs, too (directory "no touchpad - reboot with mouse").

[cbrmichi (cbrmichi)]

now i pressed the lock/unlock button about 20 times and did another reboot with mouse, now the touchpad is unlocked. :-D

here are the 2 output files

[Igor Wawrzyniak (igor-tumus)]

Still a bug in Karmic.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[Igor Wawrzyniak (igor-tumus)]

I've got the same laptop, but it's not running Ubuntu now. However the bug is still present in Debian Squeeze. If nobody else reports in a few days, I'll boot Natty from live CD to confirm.

[Igor Wawrzyniak (igor-tumus)]

Confirmed in natty.

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Sadly, not always, we have capacity to triage bugs. To be able to forward it to a developer, it needs to be well-documented. If you still can reproduce this bug on one of the supported release, please run the following command from your Terminal(Ctrl+Alt+T):
apport-collect 227202

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]