Aaron Bingham wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been a happy woody user for a couple years now, but, after > installing several more recent programs from source, I decided it was > time to make the jump to sarge. > > Now most things are running quite smoothly for me, but my mouse pointer > occasionally goes nuts, flying across the screen and randomly clicking > (or worse, drag-dropping) things. I've already inadvertently removed > some packages when the wrong character sequence got droped on an xterm > running aptitude. > > My machine is a Dell Inspiron 2100, which has a Synaptics TouchPad (PS/2 > compatible) mouse substitute.
Use the Synaptics.o module available from tuxmobil.org. Works perfectly on every Inspiron I've heard of (including my i2500 - which does exactly what you describe without it).
-- derek
