Yrurtj

Today I finally decided to switch from Windows to Ubuntu.
I fully install Ubuntu, but everytime my notebook goes in sleepmode and wakes up my mouse will not work anymore. When I do a reboot it works fine until I let it sleep (even if it's for 10sec).

So I tried switching to Mint, however even with Mint I had the same problem. I have been trying to fix it all day without success.

Notebook:
Asus laptop

On a similar forum post this was the fix:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-input-all

However this did not work for me.

This issue goes back at least a couple of years. It's a problem for a lot of Asus owners, but it's not entirely specific to Asus devices. Also, it's not Debian-specific — though in your case both Ubuntu and Mint have Debian roots.

It's a tricky one because it seems everyone's mileage varies with each proposed solution (and they all have slight hardware variances). There are countless threads trying to solve it.

Notable bug threads on Launchpad (depending on your Asus model):

• Elantech touchpad stops working after suspend


• FocalTech touchpad stops working after suspend

Applicable bug thread on Kernel.org:

• ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad dies after resume from suspend

Assuming you don't want to patch your kernel, there are a couple potential runtime solutions you can try.

(Note: You can open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T)

Disable/Enable the Mouse Driver:

You can remove and then re-insert your mouse driver module with the following commands:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse

sudo modprobe psmouse

Disable/Enable via Xinput:

Find your trackpad ID with the following command:

xinput --list

Once you have your device ID—I'll call it 12 for this example—try disabling and enabling the device with:

xinput --disable 12

xinput --enable 12

(Replace 12 with your trackpad's device ID)

Alternative:

As an aside, you may want to try hibernating instead of suspending. Supposedly the problems aren't as prevalent with hibernation.

I call this script mouse-reset. It removes and then modprobes a list of mouse-related modules:

#!/bin/bash



modules=(psmouse hid_multitouch elan_i2c)



for mod in "${modules[@]}"; do

    sudo rmmod "$mod" 2> /dev/null

    sudo modprobe -v "$mod" 2> /dev/null

done

What I do to restart the touchpad driver is similar to what Tom Hale suggested. I created a script called touch_restart.sh:

#!/bin/bash

$sudo rmmod i2c_hid && $sudo modprobe i2c_hid

and then you can always execute it quickly with:
echo "su_pass"|sudo -S sh touch_restart.sh

Also, it seems that disabling "Disable touchpad when typing" increases the periods between each touchpad freeze (it freezes very often on my Asus laptop).