Annoying touchpad

[Uranus]

Sometimes, I don't know why, my touchpad starts acting strange - the arrow starts jumping around on my screen, and every time I move it, the moment I release my finger from (the edge of) the touchpad, it moves back to where I started. I was wondering if this was a hardware or software problem, if anyone else has experienced this and possibly how to solve it.

Sam

[mdwatts]

GPM (console mouse driver) has been known to cause similiar problems with the X mouse drivers. Check to see if gpm is running.

ps ax | grep gpm

If not, post the InputDevice section for your mouse/touchpad from your X config. You can also look around the documentation at www.xfree86.org to see if they have any suggestions on properly configuring touchpads. Also searching www.google.com/linux for i.e. 'touchpad xf86config' should give you X config examples.

[leonpmu]

did you configure your installation with an external PS/2 mouse for scroll??

If so, then you must plug in the external mouse and restart X before you login [CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE]

Hope it helps

L