laptop touchpad button shows unreliable behaviour after package upgrade in Jaunty

Possibly related to bug 320632?

> Possibly related to bug 320632?

The original bug description of that bug describes another problem (of course it could be related), but yes, some later comments to that bug describe the same problem as I have: tap-to-click, edge scrolling, etc. works fine as it always has... only the touch pad's physical left button causes wrong clicks.

I can confirm this bug on Kubuntu Jaunty up-to-date on HP nw8440 laptop.
This is really annoying and leave me only the option to use external mouse... :-(

I can confirm this bug on an up-to-date Lenovo T-61 running ubuntu desktop with the x86_64 kernel. It affects the left button of the two button cluster under the touch pad, but not the left most button of the three button cluster under the space bar. Usually both left buttons act as the left mouse button.

Same behavior for me. As Luka said... It is very annoying - when browsing with firefox click closes tab which i wanted to see. Importance should be more serious, I think.
Thanks for bugreport;-)

confirming bug. I've HP nc6320

im having the same problem, its driving me nuts, keeps pasting randomly.

any ideas?

Raising priority as this is really annoying (touchpad becomes useless and even dangerous) and it seems it affects different HW.

another confirmation, i own a HP nc6400 with integrated Synaptics Pad. Also odd: The Buttons related to my Trackstick seem to behave at least better but also go crazy from time to time.

Same Touchpad is still behaving well in Interpid.

I know that this bug already is confirmed, but I still wanted to tell that I got this too.

Tell be what to attach, if needed.

This looks like a dupe of #320639.

I'm getting the same here. Keep getting random pastes and moving windows around by dragging the title bar seems to be pretty impossible. I also have an external USB wireless mouse and that seems to work perfectly based on brief testing.

Tormod is right.

The last debdiff I attached (bug 320632) should solve the problem.

This is not a duplicate 320632. This is about the physical buttons, not the touch pad. The problem is not that the taps do not work as in the other bug. Rather the left button (1) is very often being misinterpreted as a middle button (2), in a wide variety of applications.

-- when attempting to select text in Konsole, as you are dragging, it will prematurely end, and paste the previous selection.
-- if you double click to select a word in konsole, the next single left click causes a paste.
-- same thing in firefox (cannot select text, it pastes while trying.)
-- clicking on menus is interpreted as middle button, instead of left button.

the KDE window panes (the top, what's that called?) interpret left button as middle, so cannot move windows.

fired up xev, and xev says shows the correct button presses reliably.

oh, and my hardware is panasonic toughbook CF-51...
intel 945G i810... synaptics touch pad is the device reported in xorg's log.

Peter: well, a patch included in that report causes the problem. The new patch should fix it.

ok, philosophically, cause != duplicate ;-)
but if that makes tracking easier... fine.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alberto Milone <email address hidden>wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 320632 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/320632
>
> Peter: well, a patch included in that report causes the problem. The new
> patch should fix it.
>
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> laptop touchpad button shows unreliable behaviour after package upgrade in
> Jaunty
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322155
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