Comment 15 for bug 163141

After I solved the problem as described above, everthing worked fine till restart (I usually just suspend). After restart my Fujitsu Siemens, the kernel did not find synaptics as touchpad, but just a generic mouse. Suspecting it was a problem with a kernel module, I found this:

"Turns out that my Alps touchpad was being detected as a generic PS/2 Mouse. The immediate fix was to manually relaod (has somebody fixed this yet!!!) the psmouse driver after unloading it."
http://chakravyuh.blogspot.com/2004/07/synaptics-touchpad-on-gentoo-linux.html

Indeed, my Lifebook finds the touchpad as such if I run:

rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse

After restarting X with ctrl+alt backspace everything works perfect again.

I have tried to make a work-around this by putting

rmmod psmouse
modprobe psmouse

in the beginning of /etc/init.d/x11-common. But, it didn't work. Apparently, it just works after X has been started. Perhaps someone knowing more about X and (k)ubuntu could suggest a fix?