Re: ps/2 mouse (synaptics touchpad)

From: Andrew McNabb (amcnabb@argus-systems.com)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 13:21:20 EST


I had the exact same error with 2.2.16 (I think that something happened
after 2.2.15). The problem happily disappeared when I removed gpm,
which is currently unmaintained anyway. Aside from being unable to
change my Synaptics options (which gpm screwed up, too), my system
is much happier now.

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 volodya@mindspring.com wrote:

>
> Does someone have hints on the following problem:
>
> for some reason, my synaptics touchpad generates a lot of bad (or
> unrecognized) packets in 2.4.0-test4 - and works great with 2.2.14.
> Basically every few seconds of mouse movement gpm reports a ton of
> unrecognized data then another few seconds it works fine. I have compared
> the code with 2.2.14 and can't really see any that produces this. (I tried
> commenting out the toshiba and compaq fixes.. no change)..
>
> I am using gpm version 1.19.3
>
> thank you
>
> Vladimir Dergachev
>
>
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