The touchpad of my laptop fails to work soon after I login to Ubuntu. I've gone through several threads in forums regarding the same matter and have tried out:

gconftool -set boolean ... command

I've even tried to reboot the system in recovery mode. I've unchecked the System -> Preferences -> Enable touchpad while key type and restarted as well.

None of the above methods which did work for few seem to work for me. Please help me. How can I fix the touchpad issue in Ubuntu 11.10 without a reinstall?

I am using 64 bit Oneiric, on an Dell Inspiron