I think your feeling is correct and not specific to the touchpad. I'm seeing the same operation from a USB mouse. General operation could be describe as "grabby". Very Annoying.
> I have the slight feeling this might possibly be a kernel issue. I > vaguely remember reading about kernel issues with this very device... > but quite frankly I can't remember. -- Touchpad gets stuck and is generally unresponsive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372090 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs