On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Thanks; that did it.  I can now get into X.  There's an oddball issue:
> only the touchpad is working, not the trackpoint, even though both are
> enabled in the BIOS and both work under Ubuntu.  I'm going to try
> disabling the touchpad in the BIOS since I rarely use it anyway.

Strangely enough, toggling the HD audio power state has the side effect of 
sometimes enabling or disabling the trackpoint. Please raise a new PR to 
track this issue separately.