touchpad not working

[James Takac]

Hi Harry

On Wednesday 08 September 2010 16:04:45 Harry Strongburg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:25:25PM +1000, James Takac wrote:
> > I'm at work at the moment using an Acer Aspire 1410 netbook with Ubuntu
> > 10.04. I just noticed the touchpad not working here but it does under win
> > 7. Currently am using a usb mouse. It used to work fine and I'm not sure
> > when exactly it stopped working as I tend to use the usb mouse for
> > convenience. Any ideas what I can look at in oder to try and restore its
> > functionality?
>
> Did the touchpad work after installing, or did it not work
> out-of-the-box? If it worked before, check for what software you might
> have updated recently.
>
> I have a differen model Acer laptop, and when I used Ubuntu a while ago
> on it, the touchpad did not work out-of-the-box. Something with GRUB was
> the problem. So I suggest you poke around there. Sorry for no real
> answer.


It worked off the live cd and worked a while afterwards via the install. I got 
myself a wireless mouse a lil later and started using that at home as it is 
more convenient to me. So don't know when it stopped worked. It may have been 
a number of updates back for all I know. I was at work last night and luckily 
had a usb kit with mouse. Started a lil googling as well. Also had a look at 
the settings for the touchpad/mouse in case I could see something there. 
Nothing out of the ordinary there either. I came across one site that 'll try 
on the weekend as I get more time. Maybe the solution is in there.

James