Thinkpad touchpad mouse cursor laggy/choppy | Ubuntu 18.04
I am new to ubuntu so please keep that in mind.
I installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my Thinkpad L540. Most often my mouse cursor, if I use my touchpad, is laggy/choppy in a visual way. This does not happen if I use an external mouse (bluetooth). Everything else is working fine (fluid/without lags). After some reboots, it sometimes works.
I take the notebook with me and I often cant use a bluetooth mouse, so I am stuck with rebooting my device as many times as it takes, to get it working.
Did not happen on Windows 10. That is my first try installing Linux on this notebook.
I presume that my touchpad device is a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (Terminal: xinput).
Any advice on what I can do or check to get rid of this problem?
18.04 touchpad synaptics cursor
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I am new to ubuntu so please keep that in mind.
I installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my Thinkpad L540. Most often my mouse cursor, if I use my touchpad, is laggy/choppy in a visual way. This does not happen if I use an external mouse (bluetooth). Everything else is working fine (fluid/without lags). After some reboots, it sometimes works.
I take the notebook with me and I often cant use a bluetooth mouse, so I am stuck with rebooting my device as many times as it takes, to get it working.
Did not happen on Windows 10. That is my first try installing Linux on this notebook.
I presume that my touchpad device is a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (Terminal: xinput).
Any advice on what I can do or check to get rid of this problem?
18.04 touchpad synaptics cursor
asked Sep 4 '18 at 23:19
seriousserious
63
add a comment |
I am new to ubuntu so please keep that in mind.
I installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my Thinkpad L540. Most often my mouse cursor, if I use my touchpad, is laggy/choppy in a visual way. This does not happen if I use an external mouse (bluetooth). Everything else is working fine (fluid/without lags). After some reboots, it sometimes works.
I take the notebook with me and I often cant use a bluetooth mouse, so I am stuck with rebooting my device as many times as it takes, to get it working.
Did not happen on Windows 10. That is my first try installing Linux on this notebook.
I presume that my touchpad device is a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (Terminal: xinput).
Any advice on what I can do or check to get rid of this problem?
18.04 touchpad synaptics cursor
asked Sep 4 '18 at 23:19
seriousserious
63
I am new to ubuntu so please keep that in mind.
I installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my Thinkpad L540. Most often my mouse cursor, if I use my touchpad, is laggy/choppy in a visual way. This does not happen if I use an external mouse (bluetooth). Everything else is working fine (fluid/without lags). After some reboots, it sometimes works.
I take the notebook with me and I often cant use a bluetooth mouse, so I am stuck with rebooting my device as many times as it takes, to get it working.
Did not happen on Windows 10. That is my first try installing Linux on this notebook.
I presume that my touchpad device is a SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (Terminal: xinput).
Any advice on what I can do or check to get rid of this problem?
18.04 touchpad synaptics cursor
18.04 touchpad synaptics cursor
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I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04. The cursor was very jumpy. It seems to be a problem with the version of the touchpad driver used in Ubuntu 18.04, "libinput". I read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry) that it's fixed in newer versions of the driver which are going to be released for Ubuntu 18.10. Whether it's going to be released for 18.04 as well it was said there is not clear by now.
For me installing the synaptic driver instead of libinput solved my problem:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2391805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput/+bug/1696929
answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
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I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installingxserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.
– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
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I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04. The cursor was very jumpy. It seems to be a problem with the version of the touchpad driver used in Ubuntu 18.04, "libinput". I read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry) that it's fixed in newer versions of the driver which are going to be released for Ubuntu 18.10. Whether it's going to be released for 18.04 as well it was said there is not clear by now.
For me installing the synaptic driver instead of libinput solved my problem:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2391805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput/+bug/1696929
answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
PoldiPoldi
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I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installingxserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.
– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
add a comment |
I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04. The cursor was very jumpy. It seems to be a problem with the version of the touchpad driver used in Ubuntu 18.04, "libinput". I read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry) that it's fixed in newer versions of the driver which are going to be released for Ubuntu 18.10. Whether it's going to be released for 18.04 as well it was said there is not clear by now.
For me installing the synaptic driver instead of libinput solved my problem:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2391805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput/+bug/1696929
answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
PoldiPoldi
163
I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installingxserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.
– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
add a comment |
I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04. The cursor was very jumpy. It seems to be a problem with the version of the touchpad driver used in Ubuntu 18.04, "libinput". I read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry) that it's fixed in newer versions of the driver which are going to be released for Ubuntu 18.10. Whether it's going to be released for 18.04 as well it was said there is not clear by now.
For me installing the synaptic driver instead of libinput solved my problem:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2391805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput/+bug/1696929
answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
PoldiPoldi
163
I had a similar problem on my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 18.04. The cursor was very jumpy. It seems to be a problem with the version of the touchpad driver used in Ubuntu 18.04, "libinput". I read somewhere (can't find the link, sorry) that it's fixed in newer versions of the driver which are going to be released for Ubuntu 18.10. Whether it's going to be released for 18.04 as well it was said there is not clear by now.
For me installing the synaptic driver instead of libinput solved my problem:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2391805
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libinput/+bug/1696929
answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
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answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
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answered Sep 27 '18 at 12:54
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I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installingxserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.
– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
add a comment |
I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installingxserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.
– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installing
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
I have a much worse version of this problem, even after installing
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: the mouse cursor moves/clicks only about 5% of the time I use the Touchpad. I've left comment #28 on that bug.– Dan Dascalescu
Dec 9 '18 at 5:42
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