Synaptics Erratic touchpad and pointer behaviour

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Issue

  • Synaptics Erratic touch pad and pointer behaviour.
  • Track pad is very erratic at times and causes the mouse pointer to become almost unusable.
  • The Synaptics touch pad works until need to focus on an specific item.
  • While trying to minimize/maximize a window or select a file, mouse pointer starts to jump around the item/focus point like it is too sensitive.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Synaptics Touch Pad

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