On Friday 27 February 2009 00:09:44 Morten Holt wrote: > Hello people > > I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.27-r7 to 2.6.27-r8, during this > process I decided to start over on my config, setting it up from scratch > instead of reusing the .config. I pretty much set the new kernel up like > the old one, except for a few things. > > However, now my touchpad acts really strange from time to time, nothing > really specific, it's ONLY the touchpad, so i can connect an USB mouse, > but this is hardly an ideal solution. > > The strangeness is that the mouse jumps all over the screen when I try > to move it, and clicks all over the place, making for really really > anoying stuff.
A synaptics? I had that too. Really annoying. Annoying enough for me to blacklist the touchpad. Also, if I brushed it with my thumb my accident I would get about fifty '^[G' sequences dumped into Konsole. And all the problems just magically went away with 2.6.28 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
