synaptics touch pad not working Lenovo T61 after upgrade from 9.04 -> 9.10

[richbaldwin]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

synaptics touch pad not working Lenovo T61 after upgrade from 9.04 -> 9.10

my touch pad worked fine with ubuntu 9.04. stopped working after did an in place over the net update to 9.10
device recognized in dmesg however when driver tries to load says does not see device.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 22:48:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
MachineType: LENOVO 6459CTO
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.1.2-1ubuntu7
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=cecef461-9e2e-464e-9d4b-7f8c8f9b39aa ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.45-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 04/25/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 7LETB7WW (2.17 )
dmi.board.name: 6459CTO
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr7LETB7WW(2.17):bd04/25/2008:svnLENOVO:pn6459CTO:pvrThinkPadT61:rvnLENOVO:rn6459CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 6459CTO
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T61
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.28-13-generic

[richbaldwin (rdb-episolve)]

Please ignore this post. I just realized that after the upgrade the system was booting with the earlier kernel.
Once I modified grub to boot the new kernel everything works fine.

This ticket can now be closed.

Thanks.

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi richbaldwin

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu stable release(maverick ubuntu 10.10), this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.