Trackpoint suddenly disabled upon reboot for T61 Thinkpad

[Stephen Tyree]

Using a Lenovo T61 with Intrepid Ibex AMD64. Upon reboot trackpoint suddenly became disabled.

[Barnett Trzcinski (btrzcins)]

Did you just recently apply a bunch of package upgrades? This seems to have happened to me on my X61t after upgrading a bunch of stuff and going to 2.6.27-11 -- although for me both keyboard and trackpoint go unrecognized by X (Xorg log claims it can't find any core keyboard or mouse device). I'm trying to track down what changed that could have caused X to get so confused. Going back to 2.6.27-9 doesn't seem to do anything, which to me rules out kernel module issues, but maybe HAL isn't picking it up the devices anymore.

Interestingly enough, I had wacom entries in xorg.conf for the tablet screen, and they continue to work. I'm on Intrepid x86.

[Barnett Trzcinski (btrzcins)]

HAL still sees the devices, i.e. with the trackpoint:
11: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input'
   ... info.subsystem = 'input' (string)
   ... info.product = 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint' (string)
   ... info.category = 'input' (string)

So this seems to maybe be an X problem exclusively?

[Barnett Trzcinski (btrzcins)]

Right at the top of the Xorg log:
(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
     If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.

[Barnett Trzcinski (btrzcins)]

As expected, the attached xorg.conf works because it explicitly specifies a keyboard and mouse.

[Stephen Tyree (tyree731)]

I did a large number of package updates I believe before this happened (though I believe none having to do with Xorg). However, miraculously, I recently rebooted my computer the pointer started to work again. I have no idea why this could possibly happened.

[Philip Wyett (philwyett)]

User stated this has rectified itself. If anyone has this issue in future, please feel free to reopen the bug.