Synaptic Touchpad moves, but the movement is very strange

[OrbiT^]

Hello,

I've got my touchpad to move but the movements are realy strange and unusable.
If i touch it a little bit it directly jumps to anotherplace on the screen very fast and in different dierctions.
It's like it moves to fast and in different directions.

I hope you have a solution for me.
thanks anyway

Oh yeah forgot to mention clicking (right or left) doesn't seem to work either.

[kimchi_sg]

Try booting with the following option to the kernel: psmouse.proto=bare

How to tell the kernel this option: in Grub, select the boot line and press 'E', then insert a space and then psmouse.proto=bare to the end of the line.

[OrbiT^]

Where can i find the psmouse module in make menuconfig because if i do modprobe psmouse he doesn't find the module or could it be compiled in my kernel?

Thanks

[kimchi_sg]

[Randseed]

Unfortunately for us convenience enthusiasts, you'll need to do the following:

1. Apply the ALPS kernel patch to the kernel.
2. Recompile the kernel.
3. Reboot.
4. Configure X appropriately to use the synaptics module.

Note that when you compile the Synaptics module, you need to compile it in a pretty vanilla way (no SSE, no SSE2, no MMX, etc.) or it'll crash the server randomly when you scroll.

[kimchi_sg]