Touchpad is not working anymore

[Tim]

On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 15:16 -0500, Diego Vargas wrote:
> No, what I've updated on Windows is the chipset. Which (supposedly)
> only makes Windows to recognize parts of the hardware, like the LAN
> card, the WiFi card and so forth.

What I meant by exactly what you did, so someone else may be able to
help...  You need to let the list know what hardware you're using, and
what that update was (what's it actually called).
> 
> Now, there is a special disable/enable touchpad hotkey. But it just
> doesn't work. I've tried that in my Fedora 19, in anaconda at fedora's
> 19 installation, Linux Mint 15 live cd and ubuntu 12.10 live cd. In
> none of those sessions my touchpad or the d/e touchpad hotkey works.

But it does with Windows?

Are you doing a full shutdown, power off, then reboot, between swapping
operating systems?

> Then, as I said before, with an usb mouse the pointer shows up again
> and is 100% functionally. But still, I cannot move the pointer with
> the touchpad.

Does plugging and unplugging the mouse make any difference.

On my laptop, Vista would automatically disable the touchpad if I
plugged in the mouse.  That was an optional setting.

I, kind of, wished that Fedora would give me the same choice, since my
touchpad is in an annoying place, and would forever get accidentally
triggered while I'm typing over the top of it.  I'd be typing away, and
whoosh, I'm no longer typing in the word processor, but the touchpad has
put the cursor into the menus, and my typing is activating hotkeys, or
is suddenly in the middle of another window, typing it it.  I had to
settle for setting it to always disable the touchpad.  Which, oddly
enough, isn't 100%.  From time to time, it springs back to life for a
few seconds.  Sodding thing!


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