Confirmed still a problem on Lucid. I suspect the culprit was an updated "laptop-detect" package, but I have no evidence to back that up.
Doing this did solve the problem: gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/peripherals/touchpad/touchpad_enabled -t boolean true I used gconf-editor to make the change graphically. -- [10.04] Touchpad stops working after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549727 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp