I was watching a video on my laptop and the touchpad just stopped working. Everything else seemed to work, so I rebooted and the touchpad’s still dead. I fished out a Bluetooth mouse and that works fine.
Thought it might have been accidentally turned off in the settings, so I checked but the touchpad isn’t even listed in the settings any more. I then ran cat /proc/bus/input/devices | grep -i touchpad and there’s no output.
Operating System: Ubuntu 25.10
Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-12-generic
Architecture: x86-64
Hardware Vendor: Framework
Hardware Model: Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen 7040 Series
Firmware Version: 04.03
Firmware Date: Mon 2025-12-22
Firmware Age: 1month 2w 3d
Are you using a 3d printed touchpad frame?
Nope. Just the standard Framework one.
Has also happened to me a number of times in the last few weeks. I think it was after i updated my keyboard and bios to 4.whatever.
I end up doing a restart and it’s back. Once i restarted and after it flicked over to the bios welcome image, it then had a message about ‘cannot find any touchpad’ or something message! I ended up disconnecting the touchpad and then connecting it back and it was ok agian.
i’m on windows 11.
i’ve also tried to remove the touchpad while windows is running (when it suddenly stops working) and re-install it back .. and it’s still not working.
BTW, i’m using a Razor mouse 99% of the time (i’m also connected to mains + a docking hub 99% of the time)
Then you might have a different problem than I did. But it couldn’t hurt to try a resolution that worked for me.
Power off.
Then, tap the power button in about 1 second intervals, powering on/off/on/off a bunch of times, like at least 10. Then boot up and see if it works again.