trackpad stops working, only works again after system restart or hibernate/suspend

[Iwan]

it's infuriating

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Refiling against the kernel, please provide further information when prompted to do otherwise you report will not even be looked at. Thanks.

[Bruce Pieterse (octoquad)]

Iwan, thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Could you possibly let us know what type of hardware you are running, perhaps a brand and model, so we can assist further.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

The Brad Figg bot doesn't seem to have picked up this bug report so please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:

apport-collect 1637248

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Iwan (guppy79)]

Hi,
Of course.
I'm using a Lenovo Z710.

Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2

-------- Original message --------
From: Bruce Pieterse <email address hidden>
Date: 29/10/2016 11:01 (GMT+00:00)
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 1637248] Re: trackpad stops working,
  only works again after system restart or hibernate/suspend

Iwan, thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Could you possibly
let us know what type of hardware you are running, perhaps a brand and
model, so we can assist further.

** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: gnome-3.18

** Tags removed: 16.04
** Tags added: xenial

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  it's infuriating

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[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Did this issue start happening after an update/upgrade? Was there a prior kernel version where you were not having this particular problem?

Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v4.9 kernel[0].

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

Once testing of the upstream kernel is complete, please mark this bug as "Confirmed".

Thanks in advance.

[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.9-rc3

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