Odd touchpad behavior with AMD64 Dapper

[hizaguchi]

Binary package hint: xorg-driver-synaptics

I'm using an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a multibutton synaptics touchpad. This particular model has a center button that also acts as a scroll-wheel.

1) When using 64-bit Dapper, the left button doesn't always work correctly. Double-clicking is unreliable, but dragging is almost impossible. It seems to work a little better if the button is clicked once and then held on the second click to drag (as would be done with tapping to drag), but because of the unreliable double-clicks even that is not 100% effective.

2) To disable erratic clicking and dragging due to unintentional taps on the touchpad itself, both "MaxTapTime" and "TapButton1" must be set to "0" in xorg.conf. However, other than the wild sensitivity common in laptops, the touchpad works much better than the buttons.

These problems are not present in Windows or 32-bit Ubuntu, and I can disable synaptics to use the touchpad well at the expense of easy scrolling with the edge of the touchpad.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently.
We were wondering is this still an issue for you?
Can you try with latest Ubuntu release?
Thanks in advance.

Also note bug #54057 that is more or less similar.

[Paul Dufresne (paulduf)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!