In a recent message to misc@ I wrote
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:14:43PM +0100, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
> I have a Lenovo T60p laptop (amd64) currently running 6.2-stable (dmesg
> below). [[...]]
>
> My problem is that the touchpad does not work: [[...]]
>
> As a temporary workaround I have plugged in a USB (wired) mouse, and I
> was delighted to see that it 'just worked'. What's even more peculiar
> is that _when_the_USB_mouse_is_plugged_in_ the touchpad works again!
Amendment: when the USB mouse is plugged, the touchpad *sometimes*
works again. And sometimes it doesn't (finger movements on the touchpad
are ignored again).
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-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]"
<jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu>
Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
currently visiting Max-Plack-Institute fuer Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut), Potsdam-Golm, Germany
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched
at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police
plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable
that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
