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Subject: Re: Appletouch going wild
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On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Every once in a while the touchpad in my iBook G4 (geyser1, 030B) is
> going wild, emitting random movement events even when not being touched.
> That started only with 2.6.24-rc1.  The only way to stop it is to reload
> the appletouch module.  My guess would be that reinitializing the
> touchpad can result in some kind of race condition.

I always had that problem if I do something like leaving my finger too
long on it...

Ben.