I have a Gateway LT3013U netbook. I have successfully installed Debian (the regular distro, not any special netbook version) on it. Everything works flawlessly, except the touchpad. If I place my finger on the touchpad and drag from the center to the left, the mouse pointer flies to the top right then "teleports" to a random location, while simultaneously both right- and left-clicking at great speed. If I have the GNOME desktop exposed, I end up with multiple new folders on it, because the mouse clicking opens the option menu then immediately selects the first item, "Create Folder".
I've done quite a bit of 'net research, and tried various fixes found there, including creating a xorg.conf and adding sections to it, to no avail. I checked the archives of this list and debian-user as best I could, but the search engine frankly isn't very helpful. Data point: synclient reports that it can't find a Synaptics touchpad. Data point: the output of 'cat /proc/bus/usb/input/devices' contains neither Synaptics, Elantech nor ALPS. It is detected as a PS/2 mouse. I tried following the instructions at http://wiki.debian.org/SynapticsTouchpad without success. I am running Debian Squeeze, freshly updated this morning. The xorg synaptics driver is installed. A USB mouse works fine. I would be grateful for any help. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101109033623.ga29...@panix.com
