[ltp] Losing trackpoint after suspend

[Phil]

So it's been fine for a while, and then did it again yesterday. 
Suspended in the dock, pulled the laptop, started work on the train and 
no trackpoint but trackpad working fine. Cat of /dev/input/mouse* showed 
no output using trackpoint (but when trackpoint is working I do get the 
gobbledegook).

I'm assuming suspend unloads something that's not being reloaded on 
unsuspend - but only some of the time.

Cheers
Phil

Richard Neill wrote:
> When it gets into trouble, open a terminal, and (as root), successively
>  cat /dev/input/mouse*   while moving the tpoint. Ctrl-C to stop.
> Do you get a random string of gobbledegook?
>
> If you really don't want the trackpad, use custom symlinks in 
> xorg.conf, and a udev rule. See here for how I did it:
>  http://www.richardneill.org/a22p-mdk11-0.php#x
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> Phil wrote:
>> Hi
>> I've got a T60 running Ubuntu 7.04 and everything worked pretty much 
>> out of the box.
>> At work it sits in a port expander, I shut the lid, wait for it to 
>> suspend and pull it to take home. Previously on wake-up (out of the 
>> dock) everything worked fine. However recently (possibly following an 
>> update, not sure) the trackpoint stops working after a suspend, but 
>> the touchpad continues working fine. When I suspend, put it back in 
>> the dock, and wake-up the trackpoint works again. The dock also has a 
>> usb keyboard and mouse plugged into it - both of these work fine.
>> Not sure where to even start looking to determine what's going on but 
>> it's really annoying me - I dislike the trackpad and really want the 
>> trackpoint to work again.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Phil