This behavior is still present as of 2006-10-22 in my notebook. Tim's report of similar behavior in an AMD/ATI based notebook makes me wonder if it might be related to a specific touchpad model, since they would seem to rule out any chipset related issues.
-- Synaptics touchpad ceases functioning after suspend and resume. https://launchpad.net/bugs/59867 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs