I am running OpenSuse 11.1 on my Dell Latitude E6400 system and am having issues with the touchpad on the system. The Touchpad is oversensitive… Just touching it to start using it already selects items making it real difficult to use the touchpad.
I have tried different things from a x86 to a x86_64 installation, a PAE and a default kernel, lowering the sensitivity but nothing seems to work.
When booting into the fail-safe mode the touchpad works without any issues so the hardware is good but it seems to be somewhere in the configuration…
Unfortunately my Linux knowledge is not very good yet so am clueless on where to search next…
Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this as I am really happy about the OpenSuse 11.1 release but this issue is really anoying… (btw I did not see this issue in OpenSuse 11.0)
Ah… beleive I fixed it already…
Seems the installer detects 2 mouses on the system. A Dell USB mouse and a Alps Touchpad.
The Dell USB mouse entry however does not match back to the correct functionality.
After changing the Dell USB mouse to also use the Alps Touchpad driver the touchpad is reacting as it should be…
Gonna do some more testing and report back here if that indeed fixed it…
ok… turned out this was related to the fact I installed with a USB mouse attached to the system… When I reinstalled without the mouse attached the correct detection of the touchpad was done and it now functions as expected…
Does the touchpad work well on your machine? On my E6400, the pointer sometimes moves wildly around (in particular if I drag a window). dmesg shows the following entries:
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - driver resynched.
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 5
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
psmouse.c: DualPoint TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
(btw I did not see this issue in OpenSuse 11.0)