Touchpad (laptop) stopped working

[Guy Gold <guy1gold@gmail.com>]

Greetings list ,
I have a week or so old Debian 6.0.5 installed.
The mousepad (touchpad)  is not working, both in case of moving
the cursor, or using left/right click with the nearby buttons. 
and not matter what I try, it is not showing any good signs.

I did try to rmmmod / modprobe psmouse ,no go.

I followed the wiki :
http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad , but , no go.

I went the /etc/X11/xorg.conf way , and also the
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d./synaptics.conf way, no go.

Here's some output :

egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps' /proc/bus/input/devices
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"

lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Release:        6.0.5

uname -r
2.6.32-5-amd64


The touchpad settings are present under system > preferences > mouse, and it
looks like the system is quite happy and does not know anything
about the fact that something's wrong with the touchpad.


Any ideas would be appreciated

Guy


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