I have a toshiba satellite M30x and have a simular behavior. I have a new install of 9.04, with 8.04 the touchpad was working fine.
When I start with an externalUSB mouse everything works fine. External mouse and touchpad are behaving as expected. When I remove the external mouse, touchpad and keyboard freeze. I can't change to console nor shut down X nor reboot. Starting without external mouse, the touchpad is working for some seconds in X, afterwards only the keyboard is partly, I can restart X (Alt Gr PrtSc K), but I can't switch to console (Ctrl Alt FX). Un- and Reloading psmouse-module with sudo modprobe -r psmouse sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps didn't help. Coping the touchpad file for hal (sudo cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi) didn't help either. Some data about my machine: bios-version:V1.60 system-manufacturer:TOSHIBA system-product-name:Satellite M30X system-version:PSA72E-2L302YGR Linux BOX 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic I attached logs of dsmeg and Xorg for starting with and without external mouse. ** Attachment added: "dmesg_mouse" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26818207/dmesg_mouse -- touchpad randomly failing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs