Alright looking through the Xorg log it said that my touchpad was mapped to /dev/input/event11 so that is what I used evtest for. Evtest didn't do anything when turning the touchpad on and off, which I don't think it is meant to, but just in case it didn't. It showed values for clicking and moving every time I turned the pad on and off, so I think it is still getting the inputs no problem. When in Gnome I can click on menus, and they will get highlighted, but will not open, and once I click away from the window I was currently in I can't interact with anything afterwards including the window that gave me limited functionality. The only interaction I can make is making the menus of the Gnome toolbar highlight (but not actually open).
** Attachment added: "evtest" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/667430/+attachment/1716273/+files/evtest -- Hp Tx2510us synaptic touch pad does not work properly after it has been disabled/reenabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667430 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs