[X4U] ibook, OSX and trackpad

B. Kuestner kuestner at macnews.de
Tue Oct 4 06:18:33 PDT 2005


I got a brand-new iBook G4 and it had a jumping trackpad while  
Airport was doing something. Disabling Airport and the problem  
stopped. CPU was _not_ maxed out at that moment. It must have been  
something else.

At first I thought that the new iBooks had lousy Apple Trackpads  
after they changed away from their previous supplier. But that  
probably isn't it.

So look at your network setting and disconnect to see if this changes  
things.

It's now working for me, by the way, also with Airport enabled. I  
don't know what has changed. My best guess that there is/was some  
contention in the kernel where the trackpad and the airport driver  
were both busy doing stuff plus something else (mds was running at  
20% as well). Now that this "something" is done the problems are also  
gone.

Björn



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