Re: Touchpad problems with latest kernels

Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-14T14:36:16Z

On 8/14/06, Luke Sharkey <lukesharkey@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am emailing regarding some problems I have been having with the touchpad
> on my laptop (a hp pavilion dv5046ea running Fedora Core 5 x86_64).
> [ Here are the specifications for my laptop:
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-12319008-69074479.html]
>
>
> Support for my touchpad seems to have gotten worse rather than better in
> successive kernels from 2054 onwards.
>
> While on 2054 it generally works fine, On the latest kernels (2154, 2174
> etc.) I have only to e.g. open a konqueror window for the onscreen pointer
> to start going funny, and jerking about (As happens on computers with v. low
> RAM). I know its not a RAM problem, as a) everything else works fine, there
> is no slow down of any of the programs I run, only problems with the mouse
> and b) I have just upgraded from 512 MB of RAM to 1 GB.
>
> If I plug in a mouse, the pointer works fine. Though I would happily use a
> mouse, this is often inconvenient on a laptop.
>

What kind of touchpad is this? Are you using synaptics X driver or
standard mouse driver? Also I am not quire sure what 2054 or 2154 is.
Can you please try vanilla kernels from kernel.org?

Dave, is there a place where one can see contents of a given RH kernel
(without downloadig and unpacking SRPM)?

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Dmitry