Comment 91 for bug 1305522

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Nate Eldredge (nate-thatsmathematics) wrote : Re: [Bug 1305522] Re: Backport Synaptics HID touchpad driver for 14.04

For what it's worth, under 13.10 and earlier versions, I found the
trackpad experience could be greatly improved by tweaking parameters via
the synclient command. Particularly useful were MaxSpeed and
{Horiz,Vert}Hysteresis.

On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Tim Kuijsten wrote:

> @gildasvend #85
>
> Have you been able to fix the disable when typing issue? If not, have you seen these instructions?
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/462135/touchpad-issue-jumping-cursor-while-typing-ubuntu-14-04-syndaemon-dont-help
>
> I've tried 12.04 on a MB Air a couple of years ago, but switched back
> after only a couple of days since I couldn't fix the trackpad and it
> kept jumping around when working on the terminal. Made me completely
> crazy.
>
> I would really like to switch from OS X to Ubuntu, but only if the
> trackpad comes somewhat close to the OS X experience. Reading about all
> these trackpad issues on the "supposed to be Ubuntu friendly" XPS13
> leaves me still a bit unconvinced that it would be all ok by now..
>
> -Tim
>
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> duplicate bug report (1265885).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1305522
>
> Title:
> Backport Synaptics HID touchpad driver for 14.04
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Synaptics just upstreamed a new set of HID touchpad driver:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for-3.16/rmi4&id=9fb6bf02e3ad04c20edb8e46536ce3eeda32c736
>
> It's better we can have it in 14.04 .
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