Lombard G3 Trackpad Weirdness

[sambapati87]

Hey all,

My new lombard works great except for one thing: after being awake for a while the trackpad starts to "jump" around -- when I lift my finger off of the pad, it will jump back to where my finger was before, basically. It's extremely frustrating.

Here's the weird part -- putting the 'book to sleep and waking it (immediately) or restarting it fixes the problem immediately, which leads me to think its some kind of software/driver issue.

Fresh install of 10.3.9.

Anyone?

 

[sircabulon]

I have found that when this happens on my Lombard I can just put all four of my fingers on the track pad and rub the whole thing and it will stop jumping around. I have had this problem with both of my Lombards.

 

[Bunsen]

Try downloading Sidetrack. You can set parameters for how much forgiveness it has for spurious trackpad signals.

 

[Dennis Nedry]

I've had this happen before and it seems to be caused by humidity or getting dirty. Especially if your hands aren't completely dry or have something on them. I've heard that lotion can have these effects on the trackpad. The behavior is the same as if you hold one finger stationary on the pad and try to move the pointer with a different finger.

The trackpad can self-correct this problem, and you can induce the correction behavior by putting the laptop to sleep, holding a finger on the trackpad, and waking it up, releasing your finger a few moments later. You'll notice that where your finger was has become a "dead" spot. This self-correction resets itself every time you wake from sleep, so often times you can just sleep and wake up if your pointer gets sticky or "springy".