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All right, this is a bit weird. Occassionally, when I reboot, something causes my touchpad to rapidly jump around the screen whenever I put two fingers on it. However, this only happens when rebooting from Windows 7. Completely turning off the power solves the problem. Is there any way to prevent this from happening, so I can reboot normally from Windows?
Edit: I am using Arch, but tried rebooting from Windows directly into an Ubuntu live CD. The problem persists.
Last edited by schnauzer93; 06-24-2010 at 11:56 PM.
Yep, I've got the latest Synaptics driver in Windows.
And it is probably uploading some firmware to your synaptics touchpad. This may make it behave in a way that is unexpected by the linux driver, so it appears to be "broken". The uploaded firmware will stay until the chipset is powered down.
Submit a polite complaint / suggestion to synaptics
Remember to power off between win and linux
And it is probably uploading some firmware to your synaptics touchpad. This may make it behave in a way that is unexpected by the linux driver, so it appears to be "broken". The uploaded firmware will stay until the chipset is powered down.
Submit a polite complaint / suggestion to synaptics
Remember to power off between win and linux
That must have been it. I removed the synaptics driver in windows, and everything works fine on reboot. I can't use any of the multi-touch features in Windows, but who wants to run Windows anyway... :P
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