Touchpad not working in ubuntu 10.10 Maverick? Resolve it!

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I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick in my Sony Vaio E series laptop (VPCEB46FG) and its working just great. After installing, i got frequent net disconnection issues which i fixed as mentioned in my previous post. The next issue was with the touch pad and i had to find a way to make it work. This is how i managed to fix it:

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Open terminal and type the following:

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub/

Note: If you get error stating Grub: File not found (missing)

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Edit the line

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=” “

and add

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”i8042.nopnp”

Now run:

sudo update-grub

and finally reboot. Thats it! Your touchpad is ready with multitouch 🙂

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