Re: Dell Inspiron 2100/Sarge: pointer periodically goes nuts

[Derek Broughton <dbroughton@lincsat.com>]

Aaron Bingham wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've been a happy woody user for a couple years now, but, after
> installing several more recent programs from source, I decided it was
> time to make the jump to sarge.
>
> Now most things are running quite smoothly for me, but my mouse pointer
> occasionally goes nuts, flying across the screen and randomly clicking
> (or worse, drag-dropping) things.  I've already inadvertently removed
> some packages when the wrong character sequence got droped on an xterm
> running aptitude.
>
> My machine is a Dell Inspiron 2100, which has a Synaptics TouchPad (PS/2
> compatible) mouse substitute.

Use the Synaptics.o module available from tuxmobil.org.  Works perfectly 
on every Inspiron I've heard of (including my i2500 - which does exactly 
what you describe without it).
--
derek