I updated to F18 using fedup. The touchpad stopped working at all and I don't see any option in "Gnome Settings/Mouse and touchpad" that would enable it again.
Is that a bug in some driver or maybe some stale configuration from F17?
Where should I look?
I finally got it to work.
The problem is that during upgrade the synaptics driver for X11 didn't get upgraded and a stale version of it remained installed. I had to look into var/log/Xorg.0.log to find that the synaptics module wasn't loading because of ABI incompatibilities.
The issue got fixed after issuing the following command:
sudo yum distribution-synchronization --disablepresto
This is one of the final steps of the Fedup Upgrade guide.
Asked: 2013-06-14 22:54:50 -0600
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Last updated: Jun 15 '13
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