my theory is that it is related to syndaemon disabling the touchpad, because: 1. touchpad operation can be resumed by synclient and xinput cli tools 2. rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse also works, but likely because that reloads the synaptics driver 3. gpm driver continues to work in a console while touchpad is disabled in X 4. people have reporded that removing the "disable touchpad while typing" option from mouse settings is a workaround for this
see these: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/878904 https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+question/176273 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970438 Title: Mouse pointer stops responding without known trigger To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/970438/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
