[plug] weird touchpad behaviour

[Garry]

Sounds silly, but it might be worth cleaning the trackpad with an 
alcohol wipe in case it's getting a buildup..

And your fingers don't have umm dry bits (aka calluses)?

HTH

Garry

On 29/01/13 12:51, Gavin Chester wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is an observation rather than a question needing help. Wondering if
> anyone else has seen this:
>
> Using my dell lappie with mint14 xfce I see some weird behaviour from my
> touchpad after running the system over several days with multiple
> 'suspend to ram' breaks in activity. I don't know if it's coincidence of
> timing for a hardware fault to have developed, but it didn't happen with
> mint12 that I ran up until a month ago, so therefore I suspect a
> driver/software issue.
>
> Specifically, the pointer becomes erratic, but not constantly erratic,
> just enough to seriously irritate. When pointing at a page link or
> activation button on web pages or an app dialogue the pointer will
> rapidly jump to another spot (up to 50mm away) on lifting of my finger
> to tap a left mouse button click. Sometimes the irritation is compounded
> by the pointer ending up on some other unwanted link just as my finger
> taps down on the touchpad. Grrr. This sure sounds like a driver issue to
> me, since a full reboot solves the problem until the long-running
> 'suspend to ram' cycle is repeated again.
>
> In the meantime, I'll continue playing with settings like touchpad
> sensitivity and turning off 'disable while typing' and so on. And no, my
> other fingers aren't hovering over the touchpad in other places when
> this thing happens! Frustrating, but small in the scheme of things.
>
> Gavin
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