Comment 9 for bug 34501

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Peter Russell (psr) wrote : Re: touchpad lockup/drag

I reported a bug on this problem ( #69322 ) which has been marked as a duplicate of this bug.

It may well be a duplicate of this bug, but I'm pretty sure it' s a kernel bug and not an input driver bug. See this thread on LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/30/180 which describes how the problem might be related to ACPI.

I was finding this bug unbarable. My touchpad was completely unusable and my keyboard often didn't notice when I'd released a key. Eventually someone logged into the laptop as a different user and found that they experienced hardly any problem.

By experimentation I was able to find out that by removing the temperature sensors and system load applets from my gnome panel, the problem almost completely disapeared.

Do other people find that if they install these applets the problem gets worse?