I am in possession of a Macbook Air that is running Fedora 14 as its only operating system. For the most part it runs smoothly, but there is one issue I can't figure out. Every once in a while when I open the laptop from sleep the touchpad is frozen and won't work without rebooting the operating system. I still have use of the keyboard and I can click the mouse, I just can't move it with the touchpad. It seems like I need to restart the driver for the touchpad, or something, but I don't know how.
I looked a bunch of places and found out that synaptics is the name of the driver and bmc5974 is the name of the mouse device, but I don't know how to restart the driver. I also looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log while the touchpad wasn't working and saw something that said 'UnloadModule: "synaptics"' and some other stuff, but I didn't know what to do about it. It's possible that it's a hardware problem, but I think it's more likely that it's a software issue that I don't know how to fix. Anyone have any ideas? Or can anyone tell me how to restart the mouse driver from a terminal? Matt
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