A combination that worked for me, comment out the options "Device" and "protocol" . Protocol then defaults to "auto-dev" which sets up the "device" properly (see the log entries). This allows gsynaptics to work ok, and the driver works fine. The Man page for synaptics is helpful to me.
Like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "SynapticsTouchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "AlwaysCore" # Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" **** comment this out Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" # Option "Protocol" "event" *** defaults to "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "VertScrollDelta" "20" Option "VertEdgeScroll" "true" Option "MinSpeed" "0.70" Option "MaxSpeed" "1.50" Option "AccelFactor" "0.730" Option "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200" Option "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200" Option "UpDownScrolling" "1" Option "SHMConfig" "true" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" EndSection -- SHMConfig not enabled even when enabled in xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs