L512 : No more trackpoint and touchpad!

[malademental]

Hello everybody! I have a L512 Thinkpad I bought last year on "LeBonCoin" (kind of "Craiglist" for France), to a guy that worked in a German company. I love it because it has a QWERTZ keyboard and it's really awesome for programming when you get used to it (on gnu typespeed it get better scores on the qwertz that I learned the last year that in azerty that I learned when I was young). But in December I accidentally spilled a glass of tea on the table I was working with the thinkpad and a small amount of the good liquid went onto the keyboard. I had to disassemble the laptop and reassemble it but when I switched it on it was like something was still pushing the power button and so in a few seconds the laptop would hard-stop. Now, 2 months later, I tried to reassemble it again, and the thinkpad is back to life, without rebooting. The only problem is that the touchpad and the trackpoint don't work! I checked with "lsusb" and "lspci" and it doesn't show any mouse device : so bad! I plugged every connectors and don't understand why I can't use my trackpoint! It runs Debian 8 "Jessie", amd64.

Thanks for answering, and see you soon

[dr_st]

Try disconnecting the touchpad. If you are lucky, then just the touchpad is faulty, and the trackpoint can still work (I've seen situations where a faulty touchpad prevented the trackpoint from functioning).

Although based on your description it is more likely that you damaged the trackpoint. I've had it happen as well, following liquid spills.

[malademental]

So bad because my trackpoint stopped working before I spilled the tea! Also now I'm transferring data to my desktop computer so I'll test that later !