I installed openSUSE with KDE 4. Then I installed Gnome. Then it was working fine. When I restarted my laptop, I found that my touchpad was not working and I have to use USB mouse. MY laptop is fujitsu-siemens with ATI graphics card. Touchpad is there in the hardware and enabled but still not working.
May I request for help. It will be highly appreciated.
mirchichamu wrote:
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> I installed openSUSE with KDE 4. Then I installed Gnome. Then it was
> working fine. When I restarted my laptop, I found that my touchpad was
> not working and I have to use USB mouse. MY laptop is fujitsu-siemens
> with ATI graphics card. Touchpad is there in the hardware and enabled
> but still not working.
> May I request for help. It will be highly appreciated.
>
>
This is a long shot…
Does it work when the usb mouse is not plugged in? Often, plugging in an
external mouse will disable the onboard touchpads. This is often a
bios/cmos level option. Try booting both with and without the usb mouse
plugged in… does it make a difference? Linux/Suse doesn’t usually care,
and you have to turn the touchpad off yourself if you no longer want it to
be active… but the bios can kill the device before linux has a chance to
grab it.
Check your bios options. Might help.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Thanks lornix for your support.
As I mentioned I am using USB mouse because my Touchpad is not working at all.
When I disconnect usb mouse, even then it is not working. Any other suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Make sure that in Gnome you are set
to use Yast for mouse config and you
haven’t messed with the settings in
Control Center> Touchpad…When I did
my touchpad when crazy!
Thanks a lot for your support.
I went to Yast and configured touchpad and unticked usb mouse. But unfortunately when I logged in again in Genome,I found that non of the mouse was working any more. I cannot work in genome anymore. Before at least I was able to use usb mouse. What to do next. I am in trouble now.
mirchichamu wrote:
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> Thanks lornix for your support.
> As I mentioned I am using USB mouse because my Touchpad is not working
> at all.
> When I disconnect usb mouse, even then it is not working. Any other
> suggestion will be highly appreciated.
>
>
But did you reboot after you disconnected the usb mouse? Once linux has
booted, the bios doesn’t get to play anymore and won’t revert the settings
back to enable the touchpad.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Thanks lornix once again.
I restarted my laptop. But still touchpad not working. When I connected usb mouse, it is working.
Sorry, I was not clear enough
The touchpad settings under Control Center should all be default, which I believe means that all boxes will be checked for enabled, and some fine-tuning can be done in there…
Under Yast, you must use the Mouse settings and PREFERABLY use the ALPS touchpad driver, I think the Gsynaptics one sucks, but that is just in my readings and experience…
I think you’ll have best luck by turning everything on in Control Center and then making sure you’ve got the ALPS driver in Yast, THEN reboot…
Since you are stuck right now w/o mouse, maybe use a ctrl-alt-f5 then as root run sax2 to see if that reconfigures your mouse to get back basic functionality
sorry about the err…
mirchichamu wrote:
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> ajmctaggart;1854883 Wrote:
>> Make sure that in Gnome you are set
>> to use Yast for mouse config and you
>> haven’t messed with the settings in
>> Control Center> Touchpad…When I did
>> my touchpad when crazy!
>
> Thanks a lot for your support.
> I went to Yast and configured touchpad and unticked usb mouse. But
> unfortunately when I logged in again in Genome,I found that non of the
> mouse was working any more. I cannot work in genome anymore. Before at
> least I was able to use usb mouse. What to do next. I am in trouble
> now.
>
>
you can use <TAB> and the arrow keys to move around menus and such.
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Thanks once again.
How to install ALPS drivers. I still cannot use my touchpad.
I have a similar issue.
I have a Dell laptop with a touchpad, and a blue stick thingy.
I noticed that my touchpad stops working when I log in, but the stick thingy keeps working.
When I log on as root, both keep working.
In yast I have three mouse-config, one for usb, and then 2 for alps touch-pad. But the third keeps getting disabled. When I enable the third, go testing it, both work. But then when I restart X, only the stick works.
Any ideas how to solve this?
kind regards, Jeroen
Just to clarify, do you not have the option in Yast for an ALPS driver? In Yast, that would be Hardware–>Mouse Model–>Mouse 1, then click Change…
If you have already done this and I’m just misunderstanding you, something else I want to know is what type of laptop is this? Do you know what Graphics card you run? My HP doesn’t function correctly (trackpad) till I have the Nvidia driver installed (for my graphics card)…
Im not a noob, but far from a pro, so excuse my lack of command-line use to diagnose this problem…
One more thing,
as root (su from terminal)
run
sax2
then click on the mouse option when it brings up the Yast GUI…any difference in your Mouse Model now?
When I restarted my laptop, I found that my touchpad was not working and I have to use USB mouse
it’s a known GNOME issue. solution:
control panel>sessions>disable touchpad>reboot
worked for me.
Learn something new every day…thanks!
Here’s something that worked for me.
Add the line, thats highlighted, to the kernel command line parameters in the boot loader.
resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent showopts **i8042.nomux=1**
It worked for me. Touchpad works perfectly.
I had the same problem.
Take a look here:
Arch Linux Forums / Touchpad locked in Gnome [Solved]
All you need to do, is remove the gsynaptics package from your computer. It should work! 
Regards!
Hi mirchichamu,
do you still have that problem with your touch pad?
I had a similar problem.
Have you tried this:
“go to control panel>sessions, uncheck ‘touchpad’ and reboot”
Touch pad Problems - openSUSE Forums
or looked there:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=402864
or there:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=403727
?
Greetings
pistazienfresser
Hello I just installed SUSE 11 Aand my trackpad is not functioning at 100%. My left scroller on the trackpad does not function nor does the tapping with the finger on the pad function. Everything else functions more or less properly such as moving the cursor even though it is a bit difficult.
I have deselcted the trackpad in system
I have disinstalled gsynaptics and the small problem still persists. Any other ideas by any chance?
Thank you for your help.
i think that your usb mouse is not plugged in, which could cause your Touchpad without working!