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  1. Bug #34501
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 34501

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John Tyree (gummyduk) wrote : Re: touchpad lockup/drag

I am getting the same error messages in my log:
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.386502] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.388228] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.389597] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.392180] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.393597] psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost sync at byte 1
Jul 6 00:16:05 eleanor kernel: [ 2262.393601] psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request
Jul 6 00:16:08 eleanor kernel: [ 2265.388884] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
Jul 6 00:16:08 eleanor kernel: [ 2265.480497] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
Jul 6 00:16:09 eleanor kernel: [ 2266.182970] psmouse.c: Failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio1
Jul 6 00:16:10 eleanor kernel: [ 2267.723463] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.3, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
Jul 6 00:16:11 eleanor kernel: [ 2267.803332] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12

I've discovered that i can "break" the touchpad at will and recreate the error by pressing the capslock key on and off repeatedly. Capslock must somehow be related to the issue. Another person mentioned the capslock/crazy touchpad error connection in the Ubuntuforums, seen here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845152

After the touchpad bugs out, it recovers and seems normal except that the scrolling features no longer work and furthermore, gsynaptics no longer controls any of the mouse settings. For example, disabling the touchpad via the gsynaptics menu has no effect.

This bug is terrible. Losing scrolling functionality is enough to make me reboot when this happens every forty minutes or so.

HP DV6736nr

Ubuntu: 8.04 Hardy Heron
Kernel: 2.6.24-19-generic
Gnome: 2.22.2
Gsynaptics: 0.9.12-0ubuntu2 (hardy)
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: 0.14.7~git20070706-1ubuntu4 (hardy)