Thucydides411's video looks about like what I'm experiencing. I'm starting to think we may be looking at more than one bug in the same place. Tell me this, has anyone who experiences the unresponsiveness followed by erratic movement fixed their problem with synclient TouchpadOff=0? And has anyone who experiences unresponsiveness WITHOUT the erratic movement NOT fixed their problem with that same solution?
I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of Ubuntu's pointer control, but if I'm not mistaken, synclient's TouchpadOff variable toggles based on whether the touchpad has been disabled by either the "disable while typing" setting or the "disable with external device connected" setting, is that correct? Which means if it were to get stuck at 1, and the touchpad is unresponsive, manually flipping it to 0 would re-enable the touchpad... I assume temporarily until the same bug occurs again. But then, that would have nothing to do with the touchpad freezing and then starting to jump and click and drag everywhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868400 Title: Synaptics touchpad stops working Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Oneiric: Incomplete Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Oneiric: Confirmed Bug description: Synaptic touchpad stops working, seen on a few different Thinkpads. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.4.1-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 5 13:38:37 2011 DistUpgraded: Log time: 2010-07-25 15:41:02.611860 DistroCodename: oneiric DistroVariant: ubuntu InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100201) MachineType: LENOVO 4294CTO ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c4c39ed1-eb48-484a-8729-0600466a83a0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-07-25 (436 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8DET46WW (1.16 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4294CTO dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET46WW(1.16):bd05/18/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4294CTO:pvrThinkPadX220Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn4294CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4294CTO dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 Tablet dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/868400/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
