From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mouse movements
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:16:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902270816.03572.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A71328.1020909@t-hawk.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-27 6:17 UTC|newest]
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2009-02-26 22:09 [gentoo-user] Strange mouse movements Morten Holt
2009-02-27 6:16 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-02-27 7:23 ` Morten Holt
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