W. Wade, Hampton wrote:
> This appears to be a bios problem? One other time in the
> last 6 months, I unsuspended and my internal trackpoint mouse
> was dead. After several restarts of X, and some other tricks,
> I still could not get it to work. A cold boot into W95 still did not
> fix it. To fix it, it took a shutdown and cold boot.
>
> Has anyone seen similar bios suspend problems with Toshiba
> laptops? I am getting a new 8000 (PII/300) and hope it does
> not have such a problem....
>
>
This problem happens occasionally to my Olivetti ECHOS P90M with its
touchpad too. I can see in a X window where the file ~.X.err is
displayed that X gives an error saying it could not get /dev/psaux to
work, or something similar. In such a situation I try the following:
- I press Cntrl+Alt+Fx (x=1,2,...,6), thus switching to the text
console. I then try the touchpad (I have gpm running). If I see the
cursor moving, I switch to the X console. Chances are, the cursor will
be there. If not, I try this 3-4 times, sometimes I get it to work with
the 2nd or 3rd try. If this does not work, I proceed with the following:
- I press Fn+F4 (switch from internal to external monitor). The screen
goes black (I don't have an external monitor), then I press Fn+F4 again
and there it is!
- Well, not always :-(. I then suspend to disk and resume again, maybe
from the text console this time. If on resuming to the text console I
get the gpm cursor moving, it takes only some switches to and from the X
console to get X to find /dev/psaux (which is my "PS/2 auxiliary
pointing device", the touchpad).
This problem happens quite rarely for me to bother. I usually suspend to
disk and resume at least once a day and I almost never have to shutdown
and reboot :-). I have xf86-3.3.2-6 installed.
--
Chris
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