touchpad stops accepting clicks after closing laptop lid

[jeremy-list]

I'm using a new Compaq Presario CQ57-104TU laptop. When I close and reopen the lid, the touchpad stops accepting clicks either from tapping the touchpad itself or pressing the click-button at the bottom. Moving my finger across the touchpad still moves the mouse pointer. It will function correctly again if I press ctrl-alt-F1 and kill gnome-session, but all running programs will be terminated.

I am using Ubuntu Natty Narwhal, and still using the classic Gnome desktop environment. I don't like Unity desktop, so I'm not sure if it also has this problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-session 2.32.1-0ubuntu20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 11 01:04:33 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[jeremy-list (quick-dudley)]

Some further info: turns out I'm able to restore touchpad function by killing gnome-screensaver and then killing and restarting compiz. Both these steps are required and it must be in that order. Just relaunching compiz with the --replace command-line option doesn't do it, the old one has to actually be killed.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sorry that this bug report could not be resolved before the Ubuntu version expired. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since then, and the bug may have been fixed. If you still have the problem with a current version of Ubuntu, please reopen this report.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-session (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]