touch pad dies

[G.]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 5 January 2012 15:01, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> To clarify, if I close the display and then open it, sometimes the
>> mousepad no longer works.
>
> OK, so you mean that after suspending and resuming (assuming you have
> the laptop set to suspend on closing the lid, rather than hibernating)
> then sometimes the touchpad does not work correctly.  See if one of
> these bugs matches your situation:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/+bugs?field.searchtext=touchpad+suspend&search=Search+Bug+Reports&field.scope=all&field.scope.target=
>
> Colin
>
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I hate it set so the computer stays on with the lid closed.  Therefore
those bugs are not relevant.

Just now the touchpad stopped working and the lid was open.  I was
just starting firefox.

synclient TouchPadOff=0 worked to get the touchpad going again.


thanks for the reply

gary