Update.. so now everything works fine with the synaptics driver, no boot to 3.2.1 or 3.2.6 required. I suspect this was an xorg problem all along.
If I remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics then the trackpad stops working (and oddly enough, the keyboard becomes really hard to use if X is running.. very hard to describe, but keypresses are lost). In my experience, the synaptics driver is really bad at palm detection, so I am not really happy about having to use it, but at this point, its my only option.
Redirecting to xorg. Thanks everyone for the help thus far.
Update.. so now everything works fine with the synaptics driver, no boot to 3.2.1 or 3.2.6 required. I suspect this was an xorg problem all along.
If I remove xserver- xorg-input- synaptics then the trackpad stops working (and oddly enough, the keyboard becomes really hard to use if X is running.. very hard to describe, but keypresses are lost). In my experience, the synaptics driver is really bad at palm detection, so I am not really happy about having to use it, but at this point, its my only option.
Redirecting to xorg. Thanks everyone for the help thus far.