Since I switched from Mint LMDE to Mint 17 Cinnamon I frequently have problems with the touchpad. Sometimes it will freeze the entire laptop (Asus X53S - 8GB).
Nothing is working at that point.
The only solution seems to be to put the laptop to sleep and then wake it up and login again. Then everthing works fine for a little while.
When I use a (wireless) mouse this problem does not occur.
Touchpad was activated, clicks are activated, touchpad is disabled while typing and 2-finger scrolling is activated as well.

thanks for any tip

Ghis

how exactly did you switch?
did you start from scratch = full reinstall on a freshly formatted drive?

yes indeed, I started from scratch.

ok, just wanted to make sure.
you should look at your log files (maybe /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but also the one that is created when the kernel boots (i think it's accessible with dmesg) if you find something related. you should grep the files for either the vendor, or the kernel module if any, or the driver (synaptics?) or some hardware code.

just as a quick example, i'm at my desktop right now and i don't have a touchpad, but a logitech usb keyboard & mouse, so iand get some results.
they don't tell me much. i tryand get much more. amongst other things i find out that the evdev kernel module is taking care of the keyboeard & mouse. i tryand see that in fact it's being loaded.

i think there's at least one more log file (or other way to get info about your setup) that i missed here, but you get the general point: you're collecting evidence from a crime scene, trying to find that one bit that gives you proof.

ok thanks for your help

...and I have found that a faster way than sleeping+waking my laptop, is using Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6 to change into a non-GUI environment and then using Ctrl+Alt+F8 to return to the GUI Desktop Environment.

I haven't yet tried to debug this, it's possible it's not related to touchpad in my case...