This is merely an 'me too' comment with yet another workaround suggestion, working for me.
My environment: HP NX6325 Ubuntu 6.0.6 lts Linux user-laptop 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:50:50 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Symptoms, same as with original poster, touchpad started to misbehave after certain, yet unknown upgrade. Workaround: 1. Downloaded Synaptics driver package from maintainer's site and recompiled. http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/files/ 2. The recompile worked fine, but resulted in synaptics_drv.o while xorg server as it is running at my Ubuntu is requiring shared object, synaptics_drv.so 3. Hacked the driver package makefile, to force the xorg recognition, and built the .so driver. Here is my diff to original, quick and dirty, basically forcing the recognition of xorg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/synaptics-0.14.6$ diff makefile.rs Makefile 29d28 < BUILD_MODULAR = y 33d31 < INSTALLED_X = /usr/X11R6 35d32 < INPUT_MODULE_DIR = /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input 40,41c37 < # SDKDIR = $(shell pkg-config xorg-server --variable=sdkdir) < SDKDIR = /usr/include/xorg --- > SDKDIR = $(shell pkg-config xorg-server --variable=sdkdir) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/synaptics-0.14.6$ 4. Copied .so driver over the original, misbehaving one. Restarted. 5. Writing this post, touchpad back to normal. :) Conclusion: This is yet another workaround, and Ubuntu packagers should provide us with synaptics-0.14.6 XORG driver package, which apparently solved the problem, at least on my setup. Tks, Bob -- synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to https://launchpad.net/bugs/47971 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
