ASUS UL30 Elantech touchpad jitter/jumping

Question

I've been running Arch x86_64 for over a year on this laptop, and recently had to send it back for  (dropped it).  I think they simply replaced the laptop instead of just replacing the shell, so it may actually have a different touchpad or a hardware revision.
Anyhow, the touchpad works, even with two-fingered scrolling and three-finger right click, however I experience cursor 'jitter' and 'jumpiness', even with a single finger completely still. 
I tried enabling [testing] and updating everything....that didn't fix it.  Does anyone have suggestions for /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf settings?  In the past on my other laptops I've never had to configure anything, just simply install xf86-input-synaptics. 
It looks like there was a kernel fix in the aur at one point in time, but it's quite old:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24815
Also, it's an Elantech touchpad.  Here is the output of dmesg:
dmesg |grep elan
elantech: assuming hardware version 2, firmware version 4.1.1
elantech: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x7e, 0x13, 0x0d.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  This has rendered my touchpad very inaccurate.
Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2011-01-14 05:19:39)

Answer 1

I am running [testing], yes. It's working great when your computer is all-intel
I have also never done any config, and I have the same file present.
When I press a finger down it's completely still. It moves like it should, and tap-to-click, two-finger-scroll and two-finger-middle-click is enabled by default and working.
I use gnome, and under mouse settings I have a 'touchpad' tab, but none of the settings seems to work.
Now I may be imagining, but I think that the bug where Elantech touchpad = Logitech mouse is solved. You should try and enable testing repository. I don't know what kernel you are using, but in 2.6.37 it's all good.
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xorg-xev 1.1.0-1
xorg-xgamma 1.0.4-1
xorg-xhost 1.0.4-1
xorg-xinit 1.3.0-2
xorg-xinput 1.5.3-1
xorg-xkb-utils 7.5-2
xorg-xlsatoms 1.1.0-1
xorg-xlsclients 1.1.1-1
xorg-xmodmap 1.0.5-1
xorg-xprop 1.2.0-1
xorg-xrandr 1.3.4-1
xorg-xrdb 1.0.7-1
xorg-xrefresh 1.0.4-1
xorg-xset 1.2.1-1
xorg-xsetroot 1.1.0-1
xorg-xvinfo 1.1.1-1
xorg-xwininfo 1.1.1-1
xproto 7.0.20-1
xterm 267-1
xvidcore 1.2.2-1
xz 5.0.0-1
yajl 1.0.11-3
yaourt 0.9.5.1-1
yasm 1.1.0-1
zatacka 0.1.8-1
zenity 2.32.1-1
zip 3.0-1
zlib 1.2.5-3
zope-interface 3.5.3-2