Touchpad settings do not save in mouse control panel

[Mark Grandi]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

Im on a laptop, a Presario F700, and i set in the mouse control panel settings to disallow using the touchpad as a button by double tapping it, and although its marked in the control panel, i can still do it.

And i also have vertical scrolling enabled for the touchpad, and it is disabled despite the check box being checked.

I am using ubuntu hardy, latest version available in the repos.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, to confirm by somebody having a similar configuration

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

I have some new information, it seems that on boot, the touchpad settings are applied correctly, but then it seems that the kernel loses connection to the touchpad and reconnects, but once it does this, then the touchpad settings are lost

here is a kern.log file showing some interestering lines on whats happening when the touchpad screws up:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is an xorg one, the capplet only apply the settings

[chromatic.glissando (chromatic-glissando)]

I have a similar problem.

I have tap-to-click turned off in the applet and vertical scrolling turned on. However, my touchpad randomly decides to turn tap-to-click on, at odd times (I haven't figured out if anything in particular triggers it). Scrolling also stops working when this happens.

[Smeynik (dsheynihovich)]

I have a similar problem. If I disable touchpad from System->Preferences->Mouse, it is disabled until I go to standby. When I come back from standby, the "Enable touchpad" checkbox is unchecked, but the touchpad works. I need to check/uncheck it again to disable touchpad.

[Smeynik (dsheynihovich)]

I forgot to say that I am on Ubuntu 8.10 - the Intrepid Ibex.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automated message]

Hi markgrandi,

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.

[Gianni De Domenico (gdedomenico)]

I experience the same problem with DELL E6400 (ALPS Touchpad), kubuntu 8.10, kernel-2.6.27-11-generic.
I also have a logitech mouse in function.
I join the output of the command you asked.

[Mark Grandi (markgrandi)]

This is also happening to me in arch linux, but once i reinstall jaunty (im waiting for a bug to be fixed that caused ubiquity to crash on install) i will confirm it there