el80 touchpad going haywire

Hello,

I've recently came to unfortunately observe some strange issues with my touchpad. Don't know really since when it started but since some time ago, can't directly pinpoint any reason except for perhaphs some static on my fingers or dirt/water on the touchpad, I think it's not relevant with wee static anyway at least should not be.

As regards, well, it just goes nuts for a few sec and when I lift my finger of it and/or tap it, it comes back to normal soon enough. It seems as if the scroll got mixed up with the normal mouse activity and it just jumps through desktops scrolls pages/filebrowsing in konqueror, etc. If I keep my finger at it it continues so but if I tap it or remove it works once again.

Happens pretty random tho come to think of it reasonably often when I lay in bed or so, but then again no, not really. I'm leaning towards static nonetheless but I'd still like to get a second opinion first to find better ways to tackle the issue.

I also get errors like this in dmesg:

psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.

External mouse works flawless, USB connected PS/2 cheapo(but good enough for my use)-mouse by a4tech.

Any suggestions as to what might be wrong welcome Is it common with these pads? Is it elantech or whatnot, perhaphs I could look it up on other forums where other laptops use the same pad, had I known the model/make.

Cheers!

 

Anyone? This is really frustraing at times. I mostly use external mouse, but when I don't, it's annoying

 

Tried Arch Linux a while ago, got the annoying cursor bouncing over the screen, selecting, deleting, dragging. That's why I switched back to Ubuntu, which seems to work fine. The alpha ubuntu 8.04 seems to have the same problem.

Were you ever able to fix this problem?

 

hmm, no, I didn't fix it. I think it has to do with X.org being unpatched or so. Whenever I let it run a few secs after it goes bonkers, it reverts to original normal behaviour and everything's fine.

perhaphs an x.org update will sort it out. I never bothered getting to the root of it since a) I mostly use an external mouse and b) it sorts itself out after a few secs.

 

Just installed Sidux (Debian unstable) and had again the same problem.
But after installing all the updates everything seems fine.

 

I had the same problem with Ubuntu 8. Beta on my HEL81. It didn't do it at all with Ubuntu 7.04 or Simply Mepis 7.0. Once the updates were installed it rarely did it. I don't know much about Linux since I recently started playing with it.

 

Don't look to repair it, if mine breakes I will be happy, I hate this pad mouse.