Re: Continue: psmouse.c - synaptics touchpad driver sync problem

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 08:09:20 EST


On Tuesday 22 June 2004 02:52 am, Marc Waeckerlin wrote:
> In May there was a posting Thorsten Hirsch and a patch reply by Dmitry
> Torokhov that did not help Thorsten.
>
> I have exactely the same problem, and other people too. There's a thread on
> this topic with a more detailed problem description at:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1004645#post1004645
>
> The problem was pested regarding to Kernel 2.6.6, but an upgrade to Kernel
> 2.6.7 did not help me. My problem is even much worse:
> - The touchpad sometimes hangs and jumps.
> - Hitting on the touchpad does no more click the first button.
> - When I connect an external keyboard, the cursor somtimes jumps
> around like crazy and clicks around like fool, even if I don't
> click anything, but only move. When I then touch the keyboard,
> the mouse becomes normal for a while - on SuSE kernel 2.6.5,
> since. Since upgrade to kernel 2.6.7, does not become normal
> any more.

Here your touchpad can be rest back to relative mode. Does passing
psmouse.resetafter=3 to the kernel helps things a bit?

--
Dmitry
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