It was just a little annoying when I found the USB mouse stopped working , touchpad outage happens before. Then I plugged the usb jumpdrive to the usb port, it was supposed to be automounted by ivman to /media/usbdisk, but the magic does not happen, and I got the following messages in the log:

I sweated. Were the USB ports still alive? To make things more clear, I rebooted the machine with Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD, still no luck. OMG, the warranty of this laptop had been expired, I might need a bulky PCMCIA usb adpater for all USB devices if I did not want to replace the motherboard. Let’s have the finial shoot, rebooted the machine with Dell dignoise disc, run the “USB test”, all test passed. I felt a little reliefed, then reboot the machine to Linux, the USB ports revived. What a miracle !
Dell 700m always gives me some surprises. Do they think this would make our life more colorful?

I’ve met this problem again. The touchpad stopped working suddenly, the dmesg is filled with:

Reboot would bring it back.The USB mouse works well regardless whether psmouse working or not. I searched the forum, and found several open issues, like this. The touchpad does not generate any messages to the /dev/input/event1. Currently, one quick-and-dirty solution is presented by one of Gentoo users:
compile the psmouse as the module instead of putting into the kernel. Whenever the previous situation happens,