** Description changed: The main problem is (in my opinion) from some version of kernel my Touchpad buttons on my Dell Latitude D600 stopped to work properly. They do not respond to clicks exactly the way I want them to do. Touchpad tap-clicks works perfectly. Moving pointer with touhpad or stickpoint (including scrolls and other stuff) works perfectly. The problem is in buttons. After pressing (for example) left button several times (standard usage) it accidently freezes on screen in 'pressedOn' state. Buttons stops to work for random time of another clicks. Examples: 1. When dragging vertical scrollbar in any application it freezes. I release button but it doesn't do that in system. So scrollbar is behaving still as pushed and moving around with pointer. 2. When moving windows - click and hold on title bar, moving it - works good. Problem is when i want to release button and leave window in the place - that doesn't work. Pointer still behaves as the left click button was hold. 3. When want to simple click on the shortcut at gnome's bar - it doesn't release click and executes application but behaves as "move shortcut icon" - with frozen buttons its especially anoying because when it finally release you have one more free shortcut somewhere at desktop (or, whats worse, runs apps function for shortcut drag'n'drop) Dell D600 got two pairs of buttons - they act the same. The main clue is that - in elder linuxes - everything works fine. Now I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 - it works fine. - Kernel: 1.6.28-17-generic + Kernel: 2.6.28-17-generic Xorg: 1.7.4~5ubuntu18 Hal: 0.5.12~rc1+git20090403-0ubuntu4 DBus: 1.2.12-0ubuntu2.1 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: 0.99.3.-2ubuntu4 On that configuration it all works perfectly. Problem starts on newer version of linux. I write linux instead of ubuntu because I tried also newest gentoo and newest sabayon and problem is exactly the same (in sabayon buttons work even in graphical installer). Even when i did clean installation of jaunty, and then update to karmic (from update manager) - it broke buttons. Jaunty was the last of ubuntu where touchpad buttons worked great (and of course all other older distros - for example Debian Lenny which I had installed after its release). In my opinion synaptics driver is not responsible for that bug - I tried to completely remove it with all libs and confs (fdi and device section in xorg.conf) - after restart touchpad worked without features as scroll or tap but buttons still acted the same. My laptop is that one: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Dell_Latitude_D600_/_D800 (one difference is that I had ipw2100 wifi card instead of ipw2200 - they made mistake, ipw2200 is in D800, and graphics works good with radeon and fglrx drivers) Experimentally tried also using /dev/psaux as device for touchpad - no difference. I can happily share all other information that you'll ask if you only can help me solve that mystery.
-- (strange) touchpad buttons not working properly on Dell Latitude D600 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511638 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
