Dell Inspiron 1545 touchpad suddenly s-l-o-w

[Rockinghorse Winner (Terry)]

Temlakos wrote:
> On 06/27/2014 06:24 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 06/27/2014 03:11 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote:
>>> if you provide more information
>>> like your current kernel version, dmesg - fpaste link.. maybe I can
>>> say more.
>>
>> It would be both quicker and easier to have Temlakos give us the 
>> response from uname -r as that will tell us exactly what we need in 
>> one simple step.
>
> 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64
> '
> By the way: though it's monumentally annoying, I have a USB mouse on 
> hand from a recent shipment. That works, and gives me some degree of 
> satisfaction.
>
> Should I turn the touchpad off completely and use the USB mouse 
> exclusively until I can solve the problem?
>
> I tried using KDE System Settings for the touchpad. But when I tried 
> raising the sensitivity of the touchpad, all that happened was that it 
> locked.
>
> Temlakos
>
It's been forever since I used Fedora, but IIRC, wasnt there a package 
called gsynaptics, that was some sort of front end for the touchpad 
driver, that you could tweak the settings with?