SOLUTION : Touchpad not working in ubuntu

i have a dell inspiron laptop model 1464 with windows 7 n ubuntu 10.10 side by side...4m last few days my touchpad is not working at all on ubuntu but everything is fine in windows..pls anybody help me..


Hi

What kind of touchpad do you have?

Open a terminal and type


xinput --list



i got an ouput similar to this ..s o now pls help

Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SIGMACH1P U+P Mouse id=14 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Mouse id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint id=17 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ USB USB Keykoard id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HID 413c:8161 id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_1.3M id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ USB USB Keykoard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]


Enter this at the terminal. It will enable your touchpad if it is disabled.

gconftool-2 --set --type boolean /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled true


Enter this at the terminal. It will enable your touchpad if it is disabled.