Gnome 3::Touchpad problem

Question

Hi,
I have a problem with gnome3. I have a new laptop Lenovo Thinkpad L420 (Intel Core
i5-2410M + Intel HD 3000) with OS Archlinux 64-bit + Gnome3.
When I disable touchpad, touchpad is off and I enable touchpad, touchpad is
still disable::touchpad toggle (Fn+F8). When I switch to some tty (Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6) and
back to Xserver (Ctrl + Alt + F7), so touchpad works.
And touchpad in gnome 2 works normally.
What can I do with this problem? Sorry for my bad english. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You should post some logs. Give us an output of "dmesg | tail" when this happen.
I have done bellow to get a working switch for my touchpad in X environment. This is a WORKAROUND not a solution to your problem. First of all type:
xinput list
You will see your touchpad. My touchpad is:
ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad
I will use my touchpad as an example.
Now copy this text to blank file and make it executable:
#!/bin/bash
if
xinput --list-props "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" | grep "Synaptics Off" | grep 1
then
xinput --set-prop 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' 'Synaptics Off' 0
else
xinput --set-prop 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' 'Synaptics Off' 1
fi
Again, my touchpad is examplary you have too put yours in.
Now you can use this script through gnome keyboard shortcut application and assign key combination.
Last edited by Shark (2011-08-23 13:35:06)