Touchpad problem HP Pavilion dv6

[linuxrockz]

Hi everyone
I am using ubuntu 10.04 on a HP Pavilion dv6 laptop.
I am facing an issue with my touchpad.
It is a synaptics touchpad with multitouch support.

The touchpad buttons are integrated into the touchpad (i.e the buttons are themselves touchsensitive)
When I use two fingers the mouse pointer jumps on the screen erratically.
This prevents me from using drag and drop, selecting and copying etc.

Please help me either to enable multitouch support or atleast disable the bottom 1/4 th of the touch pad.

Thanks

[linuxrockz]

Anyone please

[linuxrockz]

bump

[linuxrockz]

So i have resigned myself to lug a mouse with me all along.

any way gud day

[cecilx22]

HPs are kind of notorious for having hardware that only fully works in Windows, so I've heard. Let us know if you figure it out!

[mario_k8]

Hi!

I had the same problem on a new HP dv6-3120 laptop and Ubuntu 10.10.

I followed these very simple instructions I found on this thread :

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...27&postcount=6

They refer to a different HP model (a netbook actually) but they worked in my case as well.

The pointer no longer jumps around when i put two fingers on the touchpad, and left and right button clicks work just fine (including dragging etc).

Scrolling does not work yet, but I'm looking into it. I'll let you know if I find out something...

[estima]

Same problem with my DV6 3030.

So, two options for now:

Out-of-the-box:
- Only LEFT clicks (by tapping),
- Scroll working
- Disbale of the mouse pad working

With the solution above:
- Both clicks (left and right)
- Drags, etc

BUT:
- no scroll
- no way to disable the mouse pad in the preferences

Anyone luck with this issue?

[linuxrockz]

Thanks for the solution mario_k8 , i will try it. And i do hope that HP stops making such pathetic touchpads, i really hate mine

@ estima it seems thats the way it has to be at present

[gregalynch]

for the touchpad issue - this fixed mine:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...27&postcount=6

[ElSlunko]

This worked for me:

Not sure it's been mentioned in this thread, but https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad has a nice bit of advice that worked for my hp 210.

Installing the package at

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...1/comments/167

worked like a dream - no two finger scroll, but click and drag is working nicely; something I think is a little more important.