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[dmgood <gooddm@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi!  recently installed ubuntu on my kid's netbook (dell inspiron).  the
synaptics touchpad is so darn glitchy that it is barely usable.  Been
poking around, and all roads lead to this bug report...

attempts to click/drag result in the mouse flying all over the screen
(along with whatever you were unfortunate to click/drag on).  attempts
to click result in the pointer moving a bit before executing the
offending click (which has you missing the thing you wanted to click
more often than not.

There has been some stuff on killing acceleration to fix/improve things.
Pretty please clue me in on how this is done.  Pretty please also dont
mark this as fixed, as it still needs some TLC.

Watching synclient at work... im wondering if the touchpd extents are properly configured.  
upper left hand corner reports 1200'ish x 1300'ish, and the area directly above the clicker thingy reports 1800 x 4600.  so click dragging would bounce the mouse to the lower-left whenever you raise your finger during the drag action (which looks to be about what is happening).

is there a way to tell the driver to stop registering touchies along the
bottom of pad?  just a thought.

thanks!

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Touchpad movement problems in 0.99.3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320639
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