On Aug 24 06:35, [email protected] wrote: > Hi > There has been a weird issue with my laptop's touchpad recently. It > stops responding / the pointer speed decreases / scrolling gets > disabled. All happens randomly and gets resolved on a restart or > sometimes on its own too. > There was no such problem with an external mouse though. > So I was wondering if there is a way to restart the touchpad driver. > > Could it be a hardware fault?
If it is getting fixed after a restart, you might want to check your touchpad settings in the control panel (depending on the desktop environment you use). Secondly, most people use 'syndaemon' for controlling their touchpad, do a grep and see if its running and with what arguments. Thirdly, you can try doing a 'modprobe -r <driver>' AND 'modprobe <driver>' and see what happens, and look at 'dmesg | tail' after doing this. -- Regards Chirag Anand http://atvariance.in/ -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
