Touchpad: Vertical Movement Too Fast

[Stoic]

My touchpad is too sensitive/moves too fast vertically under both Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10, as well as BT3.

Is your touchpad working properly with Linux, or am I the only one experiencing this irritation?


Stoic

[tambal1210]

Experiencing the same exact problems... Trackpad's Y-Axis seems to be extra sensitive. Ill post if I find a solution.
Also, my s10 is running a little hot, is there anyway to control the fan? It seems as though the fan goes on for less than a second at a time. I am using Ubuntu 8.10.

tambal

[watsoninc]

same problem with me, with the german S10e...any solutions up to now?

[slacy]

It looks like this is a common problem in many netbooks. People are complaining about it in ubuntu forums. There's an open bug and some suggested source code patches:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=939165
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18351

I would expect this to be rolled into an Xorg update in the future...

[vonweizer]

I have a S9, installed Ubuntu 8.1 today and for my surprise touchpad doesn't work at all. It was working when I tested before installation (with the live CD in the USB drive) so I'm sure I'll get it working eventually. With Ubuntu 8.04 wifi didn't work.

[Dennis]

I have a S9, installed Ubuntu 8.1 today and for my surprise touchpad doesn't work at all. It was working when I tested before installation (with the live CD in the USB drive) so I'm sure I'll get it working eventually. With Ubuntu 8.04 wifi didn't work.

Wifi and touchpad both worked with no changes in Ubunto 8.04 on my S10 ...

[jesusprice]

I experienced the exact same problem with the mouse moving way to fast/sensitive.

I solved the problem by clicking on system then preferences, then mouse

and in then you can change the sensitivity of the mouse. And now my mouse sensitivity is working correctly.

[slacy]

Hi, I've compiled a modified version of the Synaptics driver with a 0.6 scale factor on the Y axis. Here's a link to my blog post that gives a download link and instructions:
http://slacy.com/blog/2008/12/vertical-scrolling-fix-for-lenovo-s10-ubuntu/

[unknownx]

i tried slacy's fix, and it's as easy as peeling a banana! the most important thing is....IT WORKS!!

[justcharlie]

Hi, I've compiled a modified version of the Synaptics driver with a 0.6 scale factor on the Y axis. Here's a link to my blog post that gives a download link and instructions:
http://slacy.com/blog/2008/12/vertical-scrolling-fix-for-lenovo-s10-ubuntu/

looks great - is anything like this available for osx? the only thing that still bugs me is the scrolling