Comment 10 for bug 379517

I am sorry -- I did read the previous posts but overlooked the answer to my question.

Reverting to 0.99.3-2ubuntu4 fixed it, but, as merc mentioned on 2009-05-23, it is probably still broken to a lesser extent. Now I do recall that had I frequent problems landing a pasted selection on a pixel, but I attributed that to my own lack of dexterity. It often worked as I intended, but sometimes I would overshoot by 2-3 pixels and have to go back to find the right position.

Now I repeated the test with synclient after rolling back xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, and I can see that my X still misses some events, although now hitting the correct pixel is at least possible, and correct placement of the insertion point in a text buffer and selecting regions in it are completely trouble-free.

There is roufgly a 10-fold difference in the number of events missed in 0.99.3-2ubuntu4 and 0.99.3-2ubuntu5.

Just a WAG, but could this problem have anything to do with ALPS not being Synaptics? Did anyone notice this with Synaptics?

--Gene