Touchpad of MSI Cx640 laptop is not working after installing Linux

Recently I have purchased MSI Cx640 laptop on which I have installed Linux Mint 11. The operating system which I have installed on the laptop is seems to working fine. But there is an issue with the touchpad of the laptop. I am unable to turn off for both the permanent as well as temporarily basis. Let me know why this is happening whether this particular issue is concerned with the laptop or operating system. Any help to fix the matter would be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

Well looking at the situation I wanted to know about the hardware configuration of the laptop which you are using. Do you have done any changes on the laptop of yours. I am suggesting following command which you should run on the terminal and post the output of the same so that I can examine the same and find out why this particular issue is happening.

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$ lspci

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I have searched in the Google to get the requirement of the thing why it is happening into the situation of mine. however I have found a particular solution which you should try. First of all you should launch the Xterm and then you have to hit the Alt+ Ctrl+ F2 from the keyboard. After doing the same I have found that the Mouse and Touchpad is not working. So you should try the same and let me know whether it is working or not.

I am posting following script file which you should run on the system of yours.

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#!/bin/sh
echo -n manual > /sys/module/psmouse/drivers/serio\:psmouse/bind_mode
echo serio1 > /sys/module/psmouse/drivers/serio\:psmouse/unbind

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Also you might need to change the serio1. It is dependent on the chipset of the laptop. If there is no external directories on the system then you will have /sys/module/psmouse/drivers/serio\:psmouse - 'module' directory. You have to put there serio1.

I have installed Ubuntu on the system of mine and I have found that that the FN-F3 is working fine. I am suspecting that there is an issue with the Mint which you have installed on the system of yours. I recommend that you should simply reinstall the Linux Mint on the computer of yours and see whether it is working or not. Also you should update the Kernel and see whether it is making any difference into the situation.

I let you know that you should following thing to disable as well as enable the script which is mentioned by other user.

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gksu -- /path/to/disable/script
gksu --  /path to/enable/script

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provided that you have put the script at the following location.

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/usr/home/bill/etc/rc.local

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