Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Yogich <yogich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 14 November 2005 18:50, John Scott wrote:
> On 11/13/05, Yogich <yogich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 November 2005 10:01, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 09:46 -0600, Yogich wrote:
> > > > First, I have been away for several months but hope that will not
> > > > influence anyone to the negative when it comes to answering my
> > > > queries. I was a member of this forum for several months before that
> > > > and found good answers, here.  I hope that hasn't changed! :-)
> > > >
> > > > Second, I have SuSE 10 installed and working pretty darn well except
> > > > for the Synaptics touchpad which driver seems a bit flakey.  For one
> > > > thing, I have to tap it several times, on occasion, to get the tap to
> > > > 'take'.  In other instances a browser page will suddenly disappear in
> > > > the previous page (or the one before that one, at times) when moving
> > > > the mouse pointer. In still other instances a right-click menu will
> > > > disappear the instant I try to move the pointer ...but does that
> > > > once, only.  The very next attempt has no problem.
> > > >
> > > > Is anyone out there having any issues approximating mine?  I need a
> > > > suggestion for an alternate driver.  So far any driver I have tried
> > > > fails when I select 'Test'.
> > >
> > > I have the exact same ones. I tried changing the zillion settings for
> > > the mouse. Eventually, I gave up. I went to a USB mouse.
> > >
> > > As to the browser thing, I found that it was more likely to go to a
> > > previous page when I moved the mouse fast and to the left. So, I
> > > suspected gestures. This specific problem (previous page) only
> > > exhibited itself in firefox, which I think was getting confused by the
> > > info from the synaptic driver. I did not see this in konqueror, but I
> > > do not think it does gestures.
> > >
> > > Selecting something from a menu was also a challenge. Moving the mouse
> > > made the menu go away. Using the arrow keys was no problem. As you also
> > > indicate.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Roger
> >
> > I guess in this particular case it will be "misery loves company" ...or
> > something like that.  I guess I'll just have to put up with that, for
> > now, or use a USB mouse.  I do have one of those, fortunately.
> >
> > Perhaps it has been submitted as  a bug, already.  If not, I shall do so.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >                 ...Yogich
>
> I ran into a similar problem with the Syntapic touchpad on a laptop
> that I installed Suse 10 on.  The machine was erratic and the windows
> were closing by themselves, etc.  I changed the mouse driver to a
> generic ps/2 mouse and that ended all my problems.
>
> John

Thank you for the suggestion.  I managed to get mine change, finally, and used 
'Auto' & 'Generic' which seems to have cured the tapping problem but not the 
fact that pressure 3/4" away from the touchpad still causes it to activate.  
I can't imagine what I will have to do to get that nonsense to 
stop. :-\  ...At least the touchpad is more-or-less serviceable, where it was 
not.  Again, thank you.
-- 
	...Yogich