{"id":1318,"date":"2010-06-19T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuxnewz.wordpress.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-06-19T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T11:03:25","slug":"restarting-your-touchpadmouse-in-ubuntu-in-simple-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuxtrix.com\/restarting-your-touchpadmouse-in-ubuntu-in-simple-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Restarting your touchpad\/mouse in Ubuntu in simple steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes , due to some unknown reason, the touchpad on my Dell XPS hangs while running Ubuntu 10.04. Earlier, I used to restart my system to get that fixed.<br \/>\nAfter googling around, I found that a whole system restart can be avoided and just a simple touchpad driver restart can fix the problem.<\/p>\n<p>If you are stuck with no mouse movement on your laptop (touchpad) then press the key combinations Alt+F2 and type in<br \/>\n<code><strong>gksudo modprobe -r psmouse<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Type in the password, press enter, and then press Alt+F2 again for entering the following<br \/>\n<code><strong>gksudo modprobe psmouse<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Thats it. Your mouse pointer will start working again.<\/p>\n<p>If you like to do it through the terminal, then type in <code><strong>gnome-terminal<\/strong> <\/code>after pressing Alt+F2<br \/>\nWhen the terminal open up type the following<br \/>\n<code><strong>sudo modprobe -r psmouse<br \/>\nsudo modprobe psmouse<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p>If your usb mouse is getting stuck, then use the following command after pressing Alt+F2<br \/>\n<code><strong>gksudo \/etc\/init.d\/hotplug restart<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><em>Thanks to kabus &amp; ChrisTheGeek at UbuntuForums<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftuxnewz.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F19%2Frestarting-your-touchpadmouse-in-ubuntu-in-simple-steps%2F&amp;linkname=Restarting%20your%20touchpad%2Fmouse%20in%20Ubuntu%20in%20simple%20steps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_120_16.gif\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes , due to some unknown reason, the touchpad on my Dell XPS hangs while running Ubuntu 10.04. 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