touchpad movement is shuttering and erratic

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:37:56AM +0300, eial at cs.bgu.ac.il wrote:
> I'm running gentoo using hal 0.5.12_rc1, hal-info 20090414 with a alps
> touchpad and xserver 1.6.1.904, when I run a graphic display (kde or e17),
> the cursor's movement is shuttering and erratic.

HAL is little more than a replacement for the xorg.conf (from the server's
POV) and not at fault here. Please file a bug on bugs.freedesktop.org under
the Input/synaptics component.

Don't forget to attach your Xorg.log, chances are high we'll need it.

Cheers,
  Peter