X messing about - Thinkpad t43 lost trackpad

[Christopher Browne]

I possibly need to do a little more diagnosis...

Rebooted the laptop for the first time in a while, and, when X
restarted, it declined to recognize that I had a trackpad anymore.

I keep packages more up to date than my reboots, so it's conceivable that:
a) X.org has had a release that's getting confused

[per /var/log/Xorg.0.log]
  X.Org X Server 1.9.5
  Release Date: 2011-03-17

b) Newish kernel is ceasing to recognize the trackpad
    2.6.32-5-686

FYI, I'm running Debian/wheezy/sid on the t43...

Happily, my window manager came up fine (stumpwm), and it is keyboard-only :-).

Graphical web browsers are quite a remarkable pain to control via
keyboard, I must say.

[Bit of information that might be germaine...
http://foosel.org/linux/t43
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43]
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