OK, to continue my saga...this seems to have been caused by the (broken) transition made from grub to grub2 with the coming of 9.10. I followed the directions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 and was able to fix things...and (so far) no crashes. But knock on wood.
-- Touchpad and mouse buttons not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442441 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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
