Touchpad disabled after upgrading to 11.10, on Inspiron 1525

[Matthew Woerly]

After I upgraded to Oneiric, my touchpad stopped working. I installed gpointing-device-settings and found that it had been disabled. I enabled it and it now works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: linux-image-generic 3.0.0.12.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: matthew 19914 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: matthew 19914 F...m pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe9fc000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9228'
   Components : 'HDA:14f12c06,14f1000f,00100000 HDA:10951392,1028022f,00100000 HDA:83847616,1028022f,00100402'
   Controls : 22
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Fri Sep 30 01:17:14 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=ea5452e0-0951-4aa8-99f7-82ab4bb55e0d
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1525
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=dd63a644-83bc-4913-8de6-5f0bba39994e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.60
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-28 (2 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/10/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0U990C
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd03/10/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1525:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U990C:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1525
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

This doesn't sound like a kernel issue. Moving to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. I'm not sure that's where the problem resides, but it should be a step in the right direction at least.

[Ahmed Shams (ashams)]

Nothing to do in xserver, moving to 'gnome-settings-daemon'.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, did you try to keyboard keybinding to turn it off and on? could you run "gsettings get org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled"?

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I don't think I have a keybinding for it.
I ran that command and it returned "true", and I found that gpointing-device-settings had no effect on that setting.
Possibly unrelated... my touchpad wasn't working lately, but disabling and then re-enabling in gpointing-device-settings made it start working again.

[higuita (higuita)]

again, another bug that looks like a dupe from #868400
i also found that "disable touchpad while typing" seems to activate this bug on 11.10

[higuita (higuita)]

sorry, it was bug #549727 , not #868400

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