Just in case:<div>"</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><h3 class="title" style="margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; ">
<a href="http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html#comment-2081" class="active" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-size: 1.1em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; ">mouse pointer</a></h3>
<div class="submitted" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 0.8em; ">Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2011-04-08 21:55.</div><div class="content" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; ">
<p style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.9em; ">I just installed squeeze on a dell latitude D400 and have the same issue with my mouse pointer. however if I suspend the computer and turn it back on the pointer is back to normal....<br>
i have know idea why this works....</p></div></span></div><div>"<br><br></div><div>Source: <a href="http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html">http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html</a></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne@gmail.com">cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I possibly need to do a little more diagnosis...<br>
<br>
Rebooted the laptop for the first time in a while, and, when X<br>
restarted, it declined to recognize that I had a trackpad anymore.<br>
<br>
I keep packages more up to date than my reboots, so it's conceivable that:<br>
a) X.org has had a release that's getting confused<br>
<br>
[per /var/log/Xorg.0.log]<br>
X.Org X Server 1.9.5<br>
Release Date: 2011-03-17<br>
<br>
b) Newish kernel is ceasing to recognize the trackpad<br>
2.6.32-5-686<br>
<br>
FYI, I'm running Debian/wheezy/sid on the t43...<br>
<br>
Happily, my window manager came up fine (stumpwm), and it is keyboard-only :-).<br>
<br>
Graphical web browsers are quite a remarkable pain to control via<br>
keyboard, I must say.<br>
<br>
[Bit of information that might be germaine...<br>
<a href="http://foosel.org/linux/t43" target="_blank">http://foosel.org/linux/t43</a><br>
<a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43" target="_blank">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43</a>]<br>
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