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[Karl <868400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thucydides411's video looks about like what I'm experiencing.

I'm starting to think we may be looking at more than one bug in the same
place.  Tell me this, has anyone who experiences the unresponsiveness
followed by erratic movement fixed their problem with synclient
TouchpadOff=0?  And has anyone who experiences unresponsiveness WITHOUT
the erratic movement NOT fixed their problem with that same solution?

I'm not that familiar with the inner workings of Ubuntu's pointer
control, but if I'm not mistaken, synclient's TouchpadOff variable
toggles based on whether the touchpad has been disabled by either the
"disable while typing" setting or the "disable with external device
connected" setting, is that correct?  Which means if it were to get
stuck at 1, and the touchpad is unresponsive, manually flipping it to 0
would re-enable the touchpad... I assume temporarily until the same bug
occurs again.

But then, that would have nothing to do with the touchpad freezing and
then starting to jump and click and drag everywhere.

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Title:
  Synaptics touchpad stops working

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Oneiric:
  Incomplete
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Synaptic touchpad stops working, seen on a few different Thinkpads.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.4.1-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  5 13:38:37 2011
  DistUpgraded: Log time: 2010-07-25 15:41:02.611860
  DistroCodename: oneiric
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100201)
  MachineType: LENOVO 4294CTO
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=c4c39ed1-eb48-484a-8729-0600466a83a0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-07-25 (436 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/18/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 8DET46WW (1.16 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 4294CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8DET46WW(1.16):bd05/18/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4294CTO:pvrThinkPadX220Tablet:rvnLENOVO:rn4294CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 4294CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X220 Tablet
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+bzr20110929-0ubuntu3
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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