Hi, That sort of problem has been reported a few times recently. Thus far all evidence points to hardware problems. Time to visit your friendly Apple store :-(
On 20 Apr, this message from Grzesiek Sedek echoed through cyberspace: > I've got same problem, it has been happening like that for a while, > finally trackpad doesn't work at all. I have to use external usb mouse. > It happened right after 1 year - means no guarantee anymore. > Perhaps Macintosh fits self destructing trackpads? > > On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 18:14, Florian Feigenbutz wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> after installing Debian on an iBook 2.2 and running it very fine for >> some months I now experience problems with my touchpad :( >> I'm not sure whether this is a software problem or a hardware problem >> but I wanted to ask here if some of you perhaps got similar problems(?). >> When using the iBook for around half an hour or longer my mouse >> starts to hang spontaniously. I can solve this hanging by either >> pressing a keyboard button or by pressing the touchpad a bit harder.. >> As the second solution does not seem very nice to me I mostly try the >> first one. Those problems do also appear when I often use the suspend >> mode instead of shutting down the system completely. >> In the last few days when I enjoyed this great weather outside it >> happened that I could not even get the mouse running when pressing >> any button :( So I booted into MacOS X but even there the mouse hang >> off after a few movements, I did not get it moving again.. What >> strikes me about the test with MacOS is the fact that the mouse >> problem was even worse than with Debian.. So I shut the system down, >> enjoyed the weather and started it again when it was completely cool >> again. Only booted into MacOS and it hang again! Just when I moved >> the mouse the first time on an icon and tried to click it.. >> The next day everything was fine again, now I'm writing this mail, >> running Debian and experiencing no problems with the touchpad again.. >> Can anybody tell me why? :) >> Really got no idea.. >> Could it be a hardware error? Why does this not appear more >> regularely? Florian Feigenbutz. >> >> By the way: >> I'm running 2.4.20-ben10 kernel on Debian unstable. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ********************** > VIRUS CHECKED > ********************** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
