I have wrestled with this lots, and the problem is that no two people describe it as the same problem.
For some people, the mouse/touchpad driver or module is just wrong. I believe they are the minority. The majority are people who have working devices, but can't figure how to configure them and the point-and-click tools that keep getting thrown about just make it worse. If you can make settings work in the terminal with synclient, I wrote down how you can make those fixes permanent. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input- synaptics/+bug/463735/comments/14 For Gnome users, the magic bullet is to stop using the mouse configure menu, turn off gnome-settings-daemon's control of your touchpad, and let X settings get it just right. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308191 Title: Multitouch support not available for Synaptics touchpads v7.2 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
