I wrote to Peter Osterlund, still listed on the Man pages as the author (but he is no longer the maintainer of it.) This is his response:
"I was not aware of this problem (I don't normally use syndaemon), but I was able to reproduce the problem on my fedora machine. The problem is that the default keyboard polling interval is now 200ms, so keypresses shorter than that risk being missed. There is however an undocumented switch -m to change the polling interval, so try running "syndaemon -i 0.5 -k -m 20", which sets the polling interval to 20ms. I guess this change was made to conserve battery power on laptops. It would be better if syndaemon didn't have to poll at all, but I don't know how to implement that, or if it is even possible. Btw, I am no longer maintaining this driver, but feel free to forward my response to whoever is maintaining the driver these days. Best regards, Peter Osterlund" I did test it and while the "-m 20" didn't seem to make much difference, changing it to "-m 2" did resolve the problem. However, as Peter mentioned, it may be too much on the system to poll every 2ms. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/240738 Title: syndaemon sometimes fails to disable the touchpad -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
