Comment 22 for bug 970438

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Siim Põder (siim-p6drad-teel) wrote :

my theory is that it is related to syndaemon disabling the touchpad, because:
1. touchpad operation can be resumed by synclient and xinput cli tools
2. rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse also works, but likely because that reloads the synaptics driver
3. gpm driver continues to work in a console while touchpad is disabled in X
4. people have reporded that removing the "disable touchpad while typing" option from mouse settings is a workaround for this

see these:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/878904
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+question/176273