Erratic cursor after vt-switching in Feisty

[Tobias Wolf]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

In Feisty my Synaptics touchpad that used to work flawlessly since Breezy, now starts to behave really weird and unpredictable, once I switched the virtual console (and suspending the laptop counts as that).
When I say erratic I mean completely jerky jittering of the cursor that moves only barely goal-directed and makes saltatory saccades across the screen. (And no, I am not drunk.) It also emits clicks even though I only moved my index finger on the pad.
Restarting X restores the proper behaviour.

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

I managed to make an animated GIF recording of this. The frame rate is low but you can see the jittering and jumps.

Sidenote: Gnome needs better keyboard nav. You cannot access all places with only shortcuts. In Windows (sic!) I can reach the systray with (admittedly convoluted) tabbing around.

[Nthalk (phocis)]

This also seems to be affecting compiz-fusion in gutsy. The only way I can get my touchpad to behave is to disable either compiz-fusion or synaptics completely. Very annoying for a laptop.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in current 8.04 or 8.10 alpha?

[Tobias Wolf (towolf)]

Not for me. It has been long gone and I simply forgot about this bug report. I guess it went away during the Feisty cycle already.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Thanks, closing as fixed. Nthalk probably had some other problem.