The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    8940G's touchpad stops working when any key is pressed?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dietcokefiend, Nov 13, 2009.

  1. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

    Reputations:
    2,291
    Messages:
    3,023
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    106
    Has anyone experienced a problem with Acer notebooks where when the user presses any key on the keyboard, the touchpad gets disabled? The 8940G we are reviewing has this problem and I have never seen this happen before. When the touchpad stops functioning the little Synaptics status thing on the taskbar still shows the sensitivity blob when you finger presses the touchpad. This tells me it is still working but something else is interfering. :confused:

    I have looked around the Synaptics menu for anything relating to this feature and found nothing. I disabled the "hide cursor when typing" feature in Windows already and that didnt fix it.
     
    dietcokefiend, Nov 13, 2009
    #1
  2. powerfull499

    powerfull499 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    629
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Well, if you press FN F7, you can disable and enable the touchpad ;)
     
    powerfull499, Nov 13, 2009
    #2
  3. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

    Reputations:
    2,291
    Messages:
    3,023
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    106
    Disabling it isnt the problem ;)

    Gaming is impossible unless you use an external mouse in its current setup.
     
    dietcokefiend, Nov 13, 2009
    #3
  4. der_mali

    der_mali Weihnachtsmann

    Reputations:
    545
    Messages:
    1,156
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    It's just the palm rejection. It should be possible to disabled it in the touchpad drivers control panel.
     

    Attached Files:

    • palm.jpg
      palm.jpg
      File size:
      88.2 KB
      Views:
      283
    der_mali, Nov 13, 2009
    #4
    HaloGuy likes this.
  5. dietcokefiend

    dietcokefiend DietGreenTeaFiend

    Reputations:
    2,291
    Messages:
    3,023
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    106
    AWESOME!

    That was it... looks like past a certain level it happens.
     
    dietcokefiend, Nov 13, 2009
    #5