Acer touchpad moving cursor by itself

[Valens]

Hy guys, I ve got an Acer with Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon, everything works fine aside one huge annoying problem. My mouse cursor moves all over the screen without me even touching the touchpad. This manifests at odd times, sometime after a few minutes from boot, sometimes after a few hours. I tried every setting in the touchpad menu, but nothing works. If I have a mouse plugged in, the mouse cursor stays fine, otherwise, it s just a matter of time until it starts bouncing all over the screen really fast. I ve noticed that using the Fn+F7 key to disable and renable the touchpad solves the problem for a short time (a few minutes) but then it goes haywire again. What could be the problem?

[Valens]

Any ideas?

[pgplum]

I have the exact same problem on an Acer E11. After much googling I've decided that it's a kernel problem. The oft-suggested workaround to touchpad problems of blacklisting i2c_hid does not work in this case.

I'm hopeful that this will be fixed in the next update of Mint (with a new kernel). I would be grateful if someone could confirm this, however.

[105NorthTower]

I have the same issue on an Acer E11 running Windows 8.1; I even had the first unit replaced, because I thought it was something to do with the hardware.

In both cases, the touchpad worked fine for about a week, but then the cursor started to jump around the screen and some applications opened at random. Switching off the touchpad and inserting a USB mouse fixed the problem, but that obviously makes it hard to use on public transport.

I'm no IT expert, but I think pgplum has hit the nail on the head - it looks like a driver issue. Probably time to get in touch with Acer...

[Valens]

has anyone found or know of a fix up for this problem (other than throwing the thing out the window, which I m very close to do...) ?

[hatalar205]

Same problem. I tried Fedora, Ubuntu Mate, Lubuntu, Arch .... nothing solves this problem. Also delete and up and right buttons sometimes doesn't work on Keyboard