$%^&ing-well hate my laptop!

[mbpark]

Headsplice,

The machine here in question is a corporate laptop.

While I like Linux as much as anyone else, and am running Ubuntu on one of my machines at home, along with XP and OS X, this doesn't fix the problem.

The problem is that vendors (especially HP, Dell and Toshiba) ship crap drivers for the Synaptics touchpads. I have multiple customers who must run Windows that have utilized the OEM Synaptics drivers to great benefit on their systems.

No Linux distribution I know of has drivers, or the utilities, which can configure those trackpads to have the feature the Windows drivers provide, which is PalmCheck. That's the interference control. Yes, I know about the Open Source drivers .

I found out about these drivers from a customer who is almost completely non-technical who insisted on having them on his new Dell laptop a few years back, because his Compaq laptop had them too.

I've got multiple customers who are completely non-technical utilizing this solution, and they don't call me with touchpad problems.

Thanks,

Mitch

[headsplice]

I used to work for a company that had some old 'stinkpads.' Despite the moniker, the things were six years old and still plugging away. They were almost impossible to break, until the mobo fried.