Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 03 Apr 2003 15:07:21 +0800 | From | Brad Campbell <> | Subject | Re: Synaptics Touchpad loses sync 2.5.66 |
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Stewart Smith wrote: > Brad Campbell said: > >>G'day all, >>This is the show stopper for me using 2.5.x >>I have seen this since the first 2.5.x kernel I tried which was around >>2.5.42. >>Under X 4.2.0 (Happened under 4.1.x also) the Touchpad loses sync quite >> frequently causing the mouse to go haywire, jumping all over the >>screen and sending button presses that I have not made. >>The exact same configuration works perfectly under 2.4.x > > > I would argue that their is something marjorly funny with the synaptics > touchpads themselves (in some scenareos at least). I have seen this > *exact* behaviour not only on linux (2.4, mandrake) but in Win98 and > Win2k. This was a Dell Inspiron 4000 which my gf of the time had. She's
Yep, I had a similar problem on my old Gateway Solo 2150 that was rectified by a bios upgrade. Under windows it would happen rarely, but it did occur, under Linux it was unusable. A bios upgrade for the keyboard controller fixed both :p) In this case, it is caused by polling ACPI status. Only under 2.5 though, 2.4 works perfectly.
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