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Hi,
I seem to have a bit of a problem. Earlier today I used my laptop and it was fine, then tonight my friend was over and she was working on a paper with it, and then she started saying it froze, etc. So I came over and messed with it and restarted X and logged back in and stuff, but I didn't use the mouse, and we just ended up watching TV for awhile. Anyway, I come to use my computer again, and for some reason I notice that now the touch pad does not seem to respond to anything. I can plug in my external mini usb mouse and it works fine, but even with that plugged in, the touch pad will not do anything. I have a HP Pavilion DV4000 laptop. As far as I know no settings were changed, and I checked out xorg.conf to see if it was something in there, but that looks fine. I even tried moving my custom xorg.conf and letting X load with its default guesses, and the mouse internal mouse will still not work. I catted /dev/psaux and nothing reads out on the screen when I move my finger accross the touch pad. I even did a full reboot. What sounds like it could be the problem? Think the touch pad just died on me? Anything else I could do to test this out to see if its either dead or if its some configuration problem? I suppose I could look around for my knoppix disc and see if it works with that. Any suggestions would be appriciated.
Uh, nevermind, I rebooted again and played with the BIOS (but didn't even change anything, I was just looking to see if the touch pad somehow got turned off in the BIOS, but theres not even a setting for it), and when I booted back up it just worked again. Weird... anybody know why it would do that? It kinda sketches me out when my system does unexpected things like that... :X
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