Comment 6 for bug 1593124

@Phidias

I withdraw my complaint. I updated the bios and installed a new OS partition and this new kernel works much better now. I fear that I had tried to adjust miscellaneous settings so much in the past 2 months that my fixes were blocking the beneficial changes. I had put a blacklist line on i2c_hid before and I suspect that was preventing the change from taking effect.

$ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
[sudo] password for pauljohn:
01.02.10

 I stopped using synclient entirely, am using libinput with only a minor change in X11/xorg.conf.d, just the very last line of this:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-libinput.conf
# Match on all types of devices but tablet devices and joysticks
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput pointer catchall"
        MatchIsPointer "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput keyboard catchall"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchpad catchall"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
        MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
        MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "MyTouchpad"
        MatchIsTouchpad "on"
        Driver "libinput"
        Option "Tapping" "on"
EndSection

I no longer see the frequent accidental select and delete behavior I was seeing in editors like Emacs and LyX.

The only problem I see now is that, while using Gimp, the cursor fairly often flies to the bottom and points at the desktop panel.