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