Comment 1 for bug 240738

This problem is even more apparent to me when running syndaemon -i 0.5 -k

About every third keystroke doesn't trigger the Disable/Enable. While typing, for example, "fffffff...", quickly, it is still very possible to use the trackpad, although it is jumpy. I know syndaemon used to work correctly for me--I remember testing it when I first discovered the command. That was back in Gutsy. I've only recently started noticing this annoying behavior, although I switched to Hardy back in May. Could something else have changed recently?

My hardware is an HP tx1000 laptop, and I get this:
 [ 38.532819] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x180b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
 [ 38.593153] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input9
in my dmesg output.