X messing about - Thinkpad t43 lost trackpad

[Andrew Henriquez]

Just in case:
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mouse pointer<http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html#comment-2081>
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2011-04-08 21:55.

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....
i have know idea why this works....
"

Source:
http://www.linuxinsight.com/living-on-the-bleeding-edge-debian-wheezy-sid.html


On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> 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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