Le Fri, 12 Apr 2024 10:57:13 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev <volo...@mindspring.com> a écrit :
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, kaycee gb wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a "crappy" touchpad on my dell laptop that drives me crazy. I am > > unable to fix the sensitivity/jump problems when clicking. I tried different > > things. Sometimes it seems to help/make the jumps less present but not > > really for a long time. > > Dell touchpads are usually pretty good. I had one vostro 1510 and one 1520 in the past, there was not so much troubles. Recently I tried a vostro 3300 and now this 3350, just can't make then work correctly. > > I suggest to check which touchpad driver is being used, there might be > some useful messages in dmesg or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. It is synaptics driver. 1.8.3 (last version I can have from packages) and more recent versions tried too, same effect. > > Another possibility is that the battery went bad, is buldging and pushing > on the touchpad. I don't see how the battery can interfer with the touchpad. The battery is near the screen, above the keyboard, and touchpad is below. > > best > > Vladimir Dergachev > > > > > Thinking about that, I wonder how it would be possible to require a minimal > > finger motion before the cursor can move ? Is it doable ? Coding needed ? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > K. > >
