Cursor (touchpad) moves and clicks erratically
- by James Wood
Sometimes (usually after two-finger scrolling) the touchpad on my Asus X54C becomes unresponsive and the cursor begins to click and move small distances. Clicking seems to happen more often than moving. Unlike with other similar problems, I've never seen the cursor move to (0, 0).
Suspending (closing the lid) and unsuspending doesn't help, and neither does moving to a tty and back or rebooting. I've also tried disabling the touchpad via Fn+F9. That tends to take a long time, but doesn't have any effect.
I'm on 13.10 at the moment, but I remember it happening on 13.04 as well.
Here's the pointer section of xinput:
? Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
? ? Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
? ? ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad id=12 [slave pointer (2)]