Comment # 9 on bug 970635 from Takashi Iwai

Thanks.  The full information is mandatory in such a case in order to know the
product vendor / model and see other possible errors.

In the past, there was a known issue with the i2c-hid driver for the Alienware
touchpad, but it should have been fixed.

Just to be sure, could you add blacklisting i2c_hid and retest?  Add a file,
e.g. /etc/modprobe.d/50-hid.conf containing the following

blacklist i2c_hid

Then reboot and retest.  Check lsmod output whether i2c_hid isn't listed after
reboot.