Appletouch going wild

[Andreas Schwab]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:58 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Every once in a while the touchpad in my iBook G4 (geyser1, 030B) is
>> going wild, emitting random movement events even when not being touched.
>> That started only with 2.6.24-rc1.  The only way to stop it is to reload
>> the appletouch module.  My guess would be that reinitializing the
>> touchpad can result in some kind of race condition.
>
> I always had that problem if I do something like leaving my finger too
> long on it...

I have definitely never seen it before.

Andreas.

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