Re: Dell Latitude E6410: Touchpad Scrolling

[Ashton Fagg <ashton@fagg.id.au>]

On 12 December 2011 21:23, Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hallo Ashton,

G'day Johann,

Thanks for your response.

> I got my E6410 15 months ago and gave up on the trackpad long ago.  I am
> mostly using an external usb-keyboard with this laptop because when it is
> under load I get many keyboard errors like repetitive characters.  That does
> not happen with the external keyboard.

I can't say I've experienced this, although I do get the occasional
mouse click for no apparent reason. I can't be sure whether this is
due to me accidentally hitting the touchpad when I type (I too usually
use an external keyboard and this seems to remedy this) or something
software related, but it's very rare and definitely not what you
described. Are you sure it's not hardware related? I've not heard of
that before.

> If someone can sort this laptop's keyboard/trackpad behaviour out under
> Debian I will be glad.

Would certainly be nice! Although my research indicates it's a
mainline kernel issue and not a Debian-specific issue.

> I am running Sid.

Out of curiosity - do you have any comparison in terms of general
compatibility with this machine (versus stable)?

> Regards
> Johann

Regards,
Ashton Fagg