Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:20:00 +0200 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: Touchpad problems with latest kernels |
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:38:04AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I don't *think* I'm a lunatic, but I'm equally sure that the synaptics is a > pain in the ass and should be capable of being totally disabled somehow, > hopefully short of opening the lappy up and unplugging or cutting every > lead to it until such time as it can be made to behave instead of > responding to every thumb waved 1/2 to 3/4" above it. I've gotten hand > cramps trying to hold my thumbs far enough away from that abomination to > stop such goings on. > > So count this as a vote FOR doing something about the synaptics touchpad > situation.
I'm seeing issues as well on my Dell Inspiron 8000 (yes, it has a Synaptics, NOT ALPS as usual on Inspiron):
(without a mouse plugged in) after random times the pointer exhibits clear signs of craziness, moving on its own (mild issue) or jumping uncontrollably (worse) or being completely off-screen most of the time (worst).
IIRC (I'm quite sure about this) the very first time that I've seen this phenomenon happen on my notebook was around 2.6.9, and I attributed this to broken/grown-old hardware on my notebook (thus from then on mostly running with external mouse attached), but since several people now report very similar issues one would think that it's a driver calibration or touchpad setup issue instead of actually broken touchpad hardware.
Plus, I'm sometimes having issues with pointer movement (cursor won't advance any more unless I stop touching the touchpad for a few seconds to let it reset somehow - probably a bytestream hickup issue).
Any clues?
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