I have similar problem There are 4 interesting symptom
1. i8042 interrupt trigged when touchpad move up/left/down/right 2. evst shows the coordination when touchpad move up/left/down/right 3. there is no event in XEV when touchpad move up/left/down/right 4. touchpad is still disabled even gnome-settings-daemon is killed According 1 and 2 we can have conclusion that hardware interrupt and kernel even is generated correctly but there is no any X event in symptom 3. Since 2.6.35 touchpad is now properly recognized as a Synaptics-type touchpad, the X event is from xorg input synaptic driver . there were 3 syndaemon process while touchpad is freeze, and the property TouchpadOff is 1 The touchpad works again after I use 'synclient TouchpadOff=0'. To get the property of touchpad, you can type $ synclient -l -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/989689 Title: Synaptics touchpad stops working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/989689/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs