When your touchpad freezes after login or rebooting of linux, this situation sucks a lot. So how to remove this problem...
Hello Geeks, Recently I've installed Linux Mint 17.2 and it is going pretty great untill today when I put my laptop on Sleep. What I got when I wake up my laptop is that after the login my laptop's touchpad is freezed. I this too much annoying to me as I am a newbie. However, As I know some keyboard shortcuts, I tried to check my system settings. Although, I couldn't get any success.
Similar situation occurred with me a month ago when I installed Kbuntu 15.04.
So, Today I decided to find a permanent solution of it and Found out a solution which I am sharing over here too.
WHY THIS HAPPENS ???
Sometimes the desktop in several Linux distributions freezes for no apparent reason; active windows can still be used, and the mouse pointer can be moved around, but clicking is impossible. Furthermore, your touchpad can no longer be controlled; the ‘Touchpad’ tab disappears from the System / Preferences / Mouse menu. Even if mouse functionality eventually returns, the touchpad remains uncontrollable. This extremely annoying bug occurs randomly and may last for a couple of seconds, or until you restart your X server.
SOLUTION...!!!!
Actually, This is a Linux kernel bug (I am currently using 2.6.28) and as such it affects most distributions. An easy way to recover both mouse and touchpad functionality without having to restart your X server is restarting the mouse driver. Run the following commands on a terminal window:
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=imps
If there is no terminal window open, you can use one of the following:
Thanks to Xenofon Papadopoulos for his article to solve this creepy problem.
Hello Geeks, Recently I've installed Linux Mint 17.2 and it is going pretty great untill today when I put my laptop on Sleep. What I got when I wake up my laptop is that after the login my laptop's touchpad is freezed. I this too much annoying to me as I am a newbie. However, As I know some keyboard shortcuts, I tried to check my system settings. Although, I couldn't get any success.
Similar situation occurred with me a month ago when I installed Kbuntu 15.04.
So, Today I decided to find a permanent solution of it and Found out a solution which I am sharing over here too.
WHY THIS HAPPENS ???
Sometimes the desktop in several Linux distributions freezes for no apparent reason; active windows can still be used, and the mouse pointer can be moved around, but clicking is impossible. Furthermore, your touchpad can no longer be controlled; the ‘Touchpad’ tab disappears from the System / Preferences / Mouse menu. Even if mouse functionality eventually returns, the touchpad remains uncontrollable. This extremely annoying bug occurs randomly and may last for a couple of seconds, or until you restart your X server.
SOLUTION...!!!!
Actually, This is a Linux kernel bug (I am currently using 2.6.28) and as such it affects most distributions. An easy way to recover both mouse and touchpad functionality without having to restart your X server is restarting the mouse driver. Run the following commands on a terminal window:
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse proto=imps
If there is no terminal window open, you can use one of the following:
- In Gnome or KDE, press Alt + F2, type gnome-terminal and press Enter
- Press Control + Alt + F1, login with your username and password, type the commands, then press Control + Alt + F7 to get back to X
Thanks to Xenofon Papadopoulos for his article to solve this creepy problem.
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