When browsing web pages (using firefox) touching my touchpad occasionally makes the page move ahead one or backwards one - as if I was pressing alt-left arrow or alt-right arrow.

This does not happen consistently, and never occurs at all when not browsing the web.

My set up is fc3 using the 2.6.10-1.770.FC3 kernel, but it has also occurred with earlier 2.6 kernels as well. The touchpad is a synaptics ps2 compatible plug-in. I have included the mouse portion of my proc/bus/input/devices file:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=0000
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

Does anyone know what might be happening, or what I can do to fix it? It is not so annoying that I cannot live with it as is, but I would prefer to fix it. Thanks!

Got mouse gestures enabled? I've never used them and have Mozilla not Firefox atm, but I know there's support for such features.

Hi, I have the same issue.

I figured out that you "scroll" back and forth as if you were clicking back or forward in firefox. This is only if you move your finger near the lower edge of the synaptics touchpad. In other words, for some ungodly reason, they have configured the touchpad as if it had another "scroll" (such as the vertical one already present) in the lower edge!e

I, myself, still have lots of problems with this touchpad in Linux. I'm using SuSe 9.2 and can't still turn off the click-on-touchpad stuff... any ideas?

Hi
Not sure if this will help you, but I had some strange problems with a touchpad after moving from a 2.6.8 to a 2.6.11 kernel. Googling the issue showed a lot of chatter on the kernel mailing list since 2.6.10, and I'm not sure they have sorted the issues out yet.

However, I found a post somewhere which suggested adding the following boot option: psmouse.proto=exps

It worked swimmingly for me.

L

Thanks for the replies! Lacerto, in what file did you place the boot option? I have never done that before, and do not want to mess up my computer's ability to boot.

It's a kernel boot option, which one adds to grub. In SUSE, this file is called /boot/grub/menu.lst, but in Redhat/Fedora I seem to remember from my RHCE that it's called something else. But it will be in the same directory. If you don't know which file, post up the directory listing and I'll point you to it.

Just add the the text I mentioned to the end of the line containing 'kernel'.

L

My touchpad is not behaving strangely, but it scrolls backwards. I scroll using two fingers on the pad. In Windows, moving up the pad scrolls up and moving down, scrolls down. In openSuse it works the opposite way. Will editing GRUB fix this?

In terminal give you the options of your touchpad you can turn on or off, KDE synaptics to change any Touchpad settings.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Touchpad