Aspire One touchpad use with keyboard?

Hey,

My Acer Aspire One, which I love, does one thing that drives me NUTS! The touchpad, mainly noticed in games (FPS are the most detectable), doesn't respond while pressing keys... IE, I press "W" to run forward, and the touchpad doesn't work simultaniously... I can run, or look around, but not both at the same time... why is that? No other touchpad in a laptop I've ever used had the limitaion? And, when using an external mouse, the mouse works great, meaning I can move around pressing keys on the keyboard all while looking around. It just gets annoying having to stop, look around, then move, stop, look around, move, etc.

Is this a driver problem or a hardware problem? Even the EEE Pc that I use to have didn't do this, so why the new Acer? Curious, and no idea how to fix it.... Maybe it's even a setting somewhere I'm unaware of... thanks for the help! Hope this made some sense, wasn't sure how to describe the problem...

 

-Update.... have been looking around for touchpad settings that might change this, could it have something to do with the multitouch feature of the pad? I've disabled the input settings for multitouch, but no change... any ideas?

Thanks

 

OK, apparently no one else had this issue or any suggestions that read this, but just in case someone searches with a similar issue in the future, I solved the problem by completely removing the Synaptics touchpad driver and software that came on the machine from Acer.

Touchpad is now much more responsive, and doesn't have the "delayed" or "lagging" problem any longer... was a wierd problem, one I have never experienced on a touchpad before.

so there you go, for anyone that may have this issue in the future.

 

Thanks. pisses me off too. but i've grown fond of multitouch gestures

 

thanks as well was trying to figure same issue out huge off you have to remove synaptic to use touchpad and keyboard simutaneously -.-
acer 8942G

 

Question: My keyboard and touchpad doesn't work at the same time. How do I fix this?

Answer: In the Synaptics software, lower the sensitivity for "PalmCheck".

 

I had this problem too. Thanks a lot for the tips. Makes you wonder why Synaptics doesn't address this issue.

 

I had an Acer Aspire 8935G which I actually sold because it completely wrote the laptop off for casually playing World of Warcraft, even though the machine was great in just about every other way!

I've got an Acer Aspire 8735G on the way (at a bargain price) and I hear this problem also affects this machine so hopefully your suggestion will fix this issue. Will report back so other users of similar machines can find this thread!