I messed something up and can't get my touchpad functional at all on GNOME 2.30 any more. I looked at Mouse Preferences on the Touchpad tab, and can't find the magic switch. The touchpad works on the Virtual Terminals, and on LXDE.Here's output from dmesg, after running sudo modprobe psmouse:[29186.004285] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x9280b1, caps: 0xa04793/0x304000/0x0[29186.004295] serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0[29186.041853] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input22[29191.135029] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/serio9/input/input23
How to get touchpad functional, again?
gnome;touchpad
This is probably a problem with GConf.With gconf-editor, reach the /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad folder and make sure touchpad_enabled is ticked.I've set this value as mandatory because for some reason this value kept getting disabled. This hasn't happened since.