After I solved the problem as described above, everthing worked fine till restart (I usually just suspend). After restart my Fujitsu Siemens, the kernel did not find synaptics as touchpad, but just a generic mouse. Suspecting it was a problem with a kernel module, I found this:
"Turns out that my Alps touchpad was being detected as a generic PS/2 Mouse. The immediate fix was to manually relaod (has somebody fixed this yet!!!) the psmouse driver after unloading it." http://chakravyuh.blogspot.com/2004/07/synaptics-touchpad-on-gentoo-linux.html Indeed, my Lifebook finds the touchpad as such if I run: rmmod psmouse modprobe psmouse After restarting X with ctrl+alt backspace everything works perfect again. I have tried to make a work-around this by putting rmmod psmouse modprobe psmouse in the beginning of /etc/init.d/x11-common. But, it didn't work. Apparently, it just works after X has been started. Perhaps someone knowing more about X and (k)ubuntu could suggest a fix? -- Touchpad recognized as generic mouse on Thinkpad R61 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/163141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
