[ltp] How do I get my touchpad back again?

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

My apology to all. I remember it wrong. :)

It wasn't gsynapticks that disabled my touchpad. It was the application=20
synaptiks (It is a KDE4 application). I was playing around with it, and cho=
se=20
to enable "Automatically switch off touchpad if a mouse is unplugged", sinc=
e=20
the scrolling and tapping both don't work, despite of my best effort, and I=
=20
thought, heh, what harm can come to this, and maybe, just maybe I send some=
=20
magic string to some magic device by enabling that option and woola, someho=
w=20
it all works.

And so I did, and I did send some magic string to some magic device, and no=
w=20
my touchpad is gone. :(

Thanks
Wei

On Sunday 27 December 2009 02:41:07 pm Karsten K=F6nig wrote:
> Sounds like the basic fuckup they did with touchpad in 11.2, kde users are
> left out of the picture as well as there is no real utility to control the
> touchpad in the main repository but only a kde community repository =3D/
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> Why not try on opensuse-gnome list, they propably can help out best?
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> Karsten
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> Btw: The touchpad topic came up on -factory as the kde team wasn't proper=
ly
> informed of the changes and thus didn't work on including a useful tool,
>  maybe the gnome team just failed with gsynapticks as well?
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> Am Sonntag, 27. Dezember 2009 20:11:28 schrieb wengwei@gmail.com:
> > All,
> >
> > I am using a T61 with opensuse 11.2. The touchpad was working before I
> > installed gsynapticks in a failed attempt to get the scrolling working =
on
> > touchpad. Well, the scrolling didn't work and somehow, the touchpad is
> >  totally disabled too. I had gsynapticks removed, but my touchpad isn't
> >  responding anymore.
> >
> > Does anyone know a quick way, like echo 1 into some /sys/devices variab=
le
> >  that can salvage my touchpad?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Wei
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