Comment 13 for bug 516329

Just to clarify (sorry if I am stating the obvious), there are two issues here.

1] The touchpad buttons do not work at all (focus of this bug)

I could fully resolve the issue by at least two ways.
- The patched kernel proposed in Comment #11
- The "clickpad.tar.gz" patch proposed in Comment #5, which does not require a kernel recompilation and works happily with 2.6.31-20-generic #58 on Karmic.

I am relieved to be able to click again on my Mini 210.

2] The Clickpad "extra functionalities" do not work

Again, Comment #5 is very insightful on this.

http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/products/clickpad
"ClickButtons deliver an advanced gesture experience. This zone less option enables the user to left- or right-click anywhere on the ClickPad. Pressing one finger down performs a left click. Pressing two fingers down performs a right click. The user doesn’t need to look away from the computer screen to find the ClickZone, or try to locate it by feel."

As far as I could test on my Mini 210 running Karmic, the updated kernel on Comment #11 does not provide the extra clickpad functionalities. Or did I miss something?

An easy way to test this for me was to click with two fingers outside of the 2 clicking areas: the pointer randomly moves, but no (right) click occurs.

Also if I click in the marked zones while another finger is somewhere else on the clickpad, the pointer may randomly moves but in any case no click occurs.

Basically, clicking outside of the clicking zones still does not work for me.

Again, I am running on Karmic, not on Lucid. I will test on Lucid asap.

Have others succeeded in getting the extra clickpad functionalities working on either Karmic or Lucid?