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.
