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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #868400
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 868400

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Felipe Ochoa (felipeochoa0918) wrote : Re: Synaptics touchpad stops working

FWIW, I've had this problem too. I found a fix for this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852081&page=4&styleid=109) is to run "synclient TouchpadOff=0" from a terminal.

Here is the dmesg output of when this last happened:

[ 365.304496] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away.
[ 365.827318] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request
[ 387.700302] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
[ 387.701885] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 387.703597] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 387.712677] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 4
[ 387.715189] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
[ 387.715193] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request