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[tuxfrank <tuxfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have exactly the same problem on my DELL D600. I have been monitoring
this page to see if a solution would be created, so I could switch to
karmic.

I have experimented a bit with disabling my touchpad using the xinput
command, and through removing the appropriate xorg device driver module
from the /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input folder. Both the xinput command,
and removing the xorg device driver resulted in the same effect. The
touchpad and it's buttons were disabled and the behavior of the track
stick and it's buttons became better, but the middel mouse button (l+r
at the same time) did not work. Also trying to resize a window it
appeared that the mouse button only became activated after the movement
had started, so the selection happened beside the window.

Anyway this appeared not to be the solution. But I think I have found a
good solution and I'm curious to know if it works for everybody.

The trick seems to be, to change the settings for the mouse pointer in your BIOS:
Choose for your "pointing device" the option "PS/2 Mouse", instead of "Touchpad - PS/2 mouse".

Despite what you might expect from this, both the track stick and the
touchpad work fine under Karmic after this BIOS modification on my DELL
D600.

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Mouse behaves strange on clicking in graphical environment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444674
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