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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs