X messing about - Thinkpad t43 lost trackpad

[Giles Orr]

On 12 April 2011 01:53, 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.

Slightly OT, but perhaps useful, especially if you have to keep using
the mouse-crippled system: I'm a huge fan of Vimperator and/or
Pentadactyl.  Vimperator arrived first, and essentially brings vim
keybindings to Firefox (assuming, of course, you use FF ...).
Pentadactyl is a fork of Vimperator as the primary maintainer of
Vimperator seems to have alienated all his other devs while not making
much progress on the product ...  But: my experience has been that
Pentadactyl works fine on Windows but tanks entirely on Linux systems,
so I'm still using Vimperator on most of my boxes.

Still, a wonderful plug-in for people who prefer tiling / mouse-free
window managers (I use wmii on several machines), and like vim.  I
wonder if there's an Emacserator ... probably.  (That's a rhetorical
question people ...)

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