Bug#629243: Synaptics touchpad disabled:

2011-10-21 Thread ael
This problem with a partially disabled touchpad - the right button failing to work is especially problematic - seems to have become more severe. Restarting X repeatedly is now failing to clear the problem. I can see no obvious recent package upgrade that might explain the problem. But many of the

Bug#629243: Synaptics touchpad disabled:

2011-10-20 Thread ael
I have now found that the problem that I encountered is more subtle. 1) Only some of the synaptics functions were disabled. In particular, the second right (button 3) was not recognised. However scrolling was still working. 2) Restarting X re-enabled full button recognition. Maybe a race

Bug#629243: Synaptics touchpad disabled:

2011-10-20 Thread ael
My synaptics touchpad is not longer working because the module is uloaded: - extract from Xorg.log -- [40.390] (II) config/udev: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event11) [40.390] (**) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass