[SOLVED] The touchpad became permanently disabled

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After disabling the touchpad when the mouse is plugged in, my touchpad became permanently disabled. Re-enabling the touchpad in the Hardware>Mouse&Touchpad>…, unplugging the mouse, rebooting, etc., doesn’t help. Also tried to install the synaptics driver - still no luck.

Linux Mint 22 (based on Ubuntu 20), Cinnamon
Framework 16

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

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Turned out there was a bad contact. After reinstalling the touchpad, the number pad, and reconnecting the red plug underneath the numberpad, everything started to work.

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Glad to hear reseating everything fixed the issue! Thank you for the follow up and welcome to the community!