Martin, I have actually experienced both of these bugs. I have had the touchpad stop responding with two syndaemons. What I've been doing to fix it is kill the one with the higher PID and then run synclient touchpadoff=0. This has happened under Unity and GNOME 3.
The other issue is the touchpad locking up for brief moments and eventually becoming unresponsive and/or going wild. It gets progressively worse as time goes on, until it's become mostly unresponsive between fits of... I don't even have a word for it. It three-finger-grabs a window and rapidly jerks it all over the screen. The more I use the touchpad, the more rapidly the problem progresses, but it's fine with an external mouse if I stay off the touchpad. This happens under Unity but DOES NOT happen with GNOME 3. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/868400 Title: Synaptics touchpad stops working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/868400/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
