urgonah8me Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 Is anyone using leo on there leopard witnessing a wierd problem concerning your touchpads? Like they seem out of control when using them? When I install any leo distribution on my laptop the touch pad works.. but is not usable because its completely out of control... of i put my finger tip on it the cursor goes all over the place... rapidly.. i cant close windows ect or minimise them because the things so out of control it takes luck to end up on the button you want to press... Anyone else get this? (my touch pad is not broken... it works fine in linux and windows) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drefsab Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I had this problem I used a USB mouse and it worked fine, the touch pad worked perfect when I booted into XP, the odd things is I recently wiped everything and installed Leo only with no dual boot and the track pad is working 100% perfect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/#findComment-683528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urgonah8me Posted March 26, 2008 Author Share Posted March 26, 2008 strange :S I use USB mouse too which works fine.. but i get problems when installing leo to my internal laptops HDD.. where USB devices do not mount like i cant plug in a USB stick when in the os.. but if i put it in then boot into the OS it shows... I dont get this problem when i boot from a USB hdd into leo. I might try and wipe windows and only install leo as you mentioned and see if that fixes the track pad.. just to experiment and give some feedback Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/#findComment-683538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drefsab Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Let us know how it goes, it would be interesting to track down whats causing the problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/#findComment-684804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hi, I ran into the same issue with the track pad, and found out it was Vista causing it. I had gone from Tiny-Vista back to the OEM install, and trackpad went nuts (usb mouse worked fine). Did a Linux Ubuntu install, and trackpad was messed up there also. Linux would not let me hot-plug my usb mouse, so I had to do a manual hard shut down (pwr button). On reboot, Linux showed tons of errors/fixes, self rebooted, and unlocked my trackpad. That is a long way of saying, something in windows is grabbing the trackpad, keeping it from working correctiy. If I don't boot into windows, I don't have any issues with it. Good Luck Kenny Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/#findComment-684813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkear5 Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 I've only noticed this if I accidently put a second finger too close to the trackpad. Other than that all seems to be well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/95824-laptops-and-touchpads/#findComment-684844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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