dell inspiron 6000 touchpad problem

[Erik Christiansen]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 01:34:15AM -0500, mrwolff wrote:
> I have it mostly under control by drasticly changing the finger 
> low and high options in the xorg.conf, but I can still tell that it is 
> way shadier than with windows. 

Is that something we could try on my NEC Versa P8100? Even after
cranking mouse acceleration & sensitivity to minimum, selecting text
backwards shoots the cursor out of the window, to the other end of the
display, or suddenly highlights to top of window..

xorg.conf says:

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
   Driver      "synaptics"
   Option      "SendCoreEvents"  "true"
   Option      "Device"    "/dev/psaux"
   Option      "Protocol"     "auto-dev"
   Option      "HorizScrollDelta"   "0"
EndSection

Is there some calming control that could be tried?

If some canned roll-back hints are available, I could try updating
(just gnome?) to Dapper. (But this is my shiny new work machine, needed
for cutting code, so I'd hope to be able to revert with just a change to
sources.list.)

Maybe I should apt-get aptitude first? (And figure out how to drive it.)

Erik