keyboard and mouse clicks unresponsive after pressing the touchpad's on/off button

[Luigi]

The HP dv5 series has a touchpad button that turns it on or off. After pressing it, the keyboard and mouse become unresponsive, only a ctrl+alt+backspace (or a reboot) solves it.

[Sergio Barjola (sbarjola)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Can you provide the following information ?

 - the laptop model
 - the output of 'cat /proc/bus/input/devices'
 - the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Thanks in advance!

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Luigi (luigi-peachovsky)]

Sorry for letting you hang there :/

Anyways, here's what you asked;

[Luigi (luigi-peachovsky)]

Oops, I forgot this

[Luigi (luigi-peachovsky)]

it's an HP DV5 1210ef

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal(Ctrl+Alt+T):

apport-collect 631800

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since there has not been a response from the original reporter. However, the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. If you're not the original reporter, we'd prefer you file a new bug report.

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