FS#2385 - touchpad too sensitive and jerky

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 04:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

since i upgraded the kernel tonight, after the reboot the touchpad of my sony vaio is extremely sensitive and it clicks on things even if I barely touch the touchpad.

To make things worse, the movement of the cursor when going slowly is extremely jerky. The mouse cursor moves fine when going fast, but when you want to target a widget it becomes jerky and it makes it difficult to click on things.

I tried the gnome 2.10 mouse panel and changed its values, but its sensitivity widget seems to be completely broken. The acceleration works, but as i said, movement is not smooth when going slowly.

Please note that i am not using synaptics, as my vaio does not use it.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Wednesday, 24 August 2005, 22:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Wednesday, 16 March 2005, 06:27 GMT
apparently, i am not the only one with this problem on 2.6.11. I don't want to use the -mm kernel (i prefer to be in line with arch's defaults), but I would surely appreciate a patch on the vanilla kernel to fix the problem. Currently, using X is pretty much unusable both because of the sensitivity problem and because of the jerkiness on slow mouse movement!
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4299
Comment by Mark Drummond (med1972) - Thursday, 17 March 2005, 02:10 GMT
I'm having the same problem on my Viao as well.

Mark
Comment by Mark Drummond (med1972) - Thursday, 17 March 2005, 14:57 GMT
Just to be clear, for me at least, an external USB mouse works just fine. It is just the touchpad that is acting wonky.

Mark
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 18 March 2005, 20:56 GMT
Yea, sounds like they're well aware of the problem upstream. Hopefully it will be resolved in the next kernel release.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Thursday, 12 May 2005, 18:35 GMT
Is this fixed upstream yet, Eugenia?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Thursday, 12 May 2005, 19:21 GMT
I don't know for sure, we need to wait for 2.6.12, don't close this bug yet. Right now I am using a trick to make the laptop behave itself, default behavior still sucks.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 08:24 GMT
well did 2.6.12 fixed it ?
Comment by Eugenia Loli-Queru (Eugenia) - Friday, 29 July 2005, 05:33 GMT
yes, it now seems fixed.

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