Public bug reported: In Lucid, when I press my laptop’s button to enable or disable the touchpad, I am no longer able to type anything into X without first going to a non-X controlled virtual terminal and then going back to the VT running X. Sometimes, even that doesn't work and I have to go to a VT and reboot the system. On at least two occasions when I have done this, I have had the following log messages appear in dmesg and /var/log/kern.log:
Mar 9 10:59:07 fennel kernel: [ 4187.678006] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 4 bytes away. Mar 9 10:59:07 fennel kernel: [ 4187.693983] psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request Followed by this repeated many, many times: Mar 9 10:59:13 fennel kernel: [ 4193.493333] i8042.c: Can't write CTR while closing AUX port. Mar 9 10:59:13 fennel kernel: [ 4194.315567] i8042.c: Can't reactivate AUX port. And then this: Mar 9 11:30:32 fennel kernel: [ 6072.665172] psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio1 Mar 9 11:31:16 fennel kernel: [ 6115.694946] input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input15 Mar 9 11:31:16 fennel kernel: [ 6116.507153] psmouse.c: Failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1 On this occasion, my keyboard CapsLock and NumLock lights were fixed on (though pressing CapsLock and NumLock would indeed toggle their status, the lights were just on) and then when I went to reboot the system, both the CapsLock and NumLock lights started to blink (though, they were not blinking in the pattern that tends to happen when the kernel panics, it was an unfamiliar blinking pattern to me). I had to power-cycle the system in order to bring it back up again. I do not know if this is a kernel bug, or a bug somewhere in the X11 stack. Therefore I am filing this bug report without a source package attached. Please feel free to ask for any additional information if it is needed; I am not sure what other information would be required or helpful in order to provide troubleshooting for this bug. All I know is that this makes Lucid extremely difficult to use, as my touchpad needs to be disabled to be able to type large amounts of text and I can't do that right now (and the touchpad is very sensitive). Thanks! ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Synaptic touchpad toggle breaks all keyboard input https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/535213 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