I CAN REPRODUCE IT (with Sebastian's patch, of course)!!
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1) Push PadLeft (hold), then push StickLeft (hold), then touch Stick to move 
the pointer over some text (and let it be; still holding btns!)
   - your pointer should have moved and selected a piece of text -- normal 
"drag selection"
2) Now release PadLeft and then StickLeft (first StickLeft then PadLeft doesn't 
trigger this!)
   - now you're screwed :)

Voila! Your desktop is now officially crazy. :) Moving the pointer using
external mouse, Stick or Pad keeps dragging the selection. You can push
any buttons or keys you want, it won't stop untill you click PadLeft!

What happens to me - I usually pushed ALT-Tab in this state to check
other windows (i.e. "what's going on?"). Try it. The situation get
worse, because the selection stops, doesn't follow the mouse anymore,
but all symptoms remain. Now you just see a desktop, where keyboard
doesn't work, mouse clicks don't work, ALT+Tab order got reversed --
first I thought X went crazy. Until I found that it's the ALPS. Pushing
PadLeft makes everything go away.

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ALPS DualPoint Touchpad flaky performance
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/296610
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