Touchpad crippled under kernel 2.6.11-1.14

[Travis Rousseau]

On 4/13/05, Avi Jacobson <avi-j at pacbell.net> wrote:
>  
> I've seen this question posted a couple of times in the past few days since
> FC3 kernel 2.6.11-1.14 was released,  but I haven't seen any responses. So
> forgive me for asking again. 
>   
> With the new kernel, the touchpad on my Acer Travelmate 290 is acting very
> funky. It's really slow and doesn't recognize tap-as-click.
yeah its slow but you can get the tap as click to work if you
repeatedly press very fast.
> Everything was
> fine in 2.6.10-1.770 and prior releases of the kernel. 
>   
> Is there an easy fix for this? 
I think this is a problem with the kernel, i noticed this first in
slackware and gentoo (where i keep right up to the latest stuff)

Travis R.