My HP laptops mousepad will hang for no reason. A USB mouse does keep going but it's annoying when trying to use the laptop away from a desk.

Any help with how to debug this would be appreciated.

Here's the info I've found.

> cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=23b1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event8
B: PROP=1
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 30000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

> inxi -S
System: Host echopark Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic i686 (32 bit) Desktop Gnome Distro Linux Mint 12 Lisa

> inxi -M
Machine: System Hewlett-Packard (portable) product Pavilion ZV6000 (PX343UA#ABA) version F.14
Mobo Hewlett-Packard model 3085 version 42.37 Bios Hewlett-Packard version F.14 date 05/27/2005

> apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
Installed: 1.4.1-1ubuntu2