No GUI touchpad preferences in Ubuntu 10.04 on Asus Eee PC 1015P

[rokssolana]

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I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Remix on Asus Eee PC 1015P.
The problem is that there is no way of configuring my touchpad under GUI.
First, there is no "Touchpad" tab in System -> Preferences -> Mouse.
I installed GSynaptics, but every time I try to run it, it gives the "You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf". The point is that there is no default xorg.conf file in 10.04. I tried to make one with Xorg -configure; it had no 'Synaptics Touchpad' entry; I created one, and I did set the 'SHMConfig' option to 'true', but it didn't do anything. Obviously, Xorg simply pays no attention to xorg.conf file any longer. Then, I tried to use the new way of configuring Xorg with HAL .fdi files. I created an /etc/hal/fdi/policy11-X11-synaptics.fdi file and wrote
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
       <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
   </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>
in it. This did nothing, GSynaptics still gives the error.
The touchpad itself works fine, two-finger scrolling and three-finger right-click work, too. It is likely that Synaptics and Xorg recognize my touchpad and manage it, but there are no graphical preferences.
To summarize, there are two main bug issues:
1. No 'Touchpad' tab in System -> Preferences -> Mouse.
2. No way to enable SHMConfig to get other GUI touchpad preferences apps running.

Thank you for your attention.

[mikelococo (mikelococo)]

Is it possible that this is a duplicate of #550625. Do you have an Alps touchpad that is detected as a PS2 or Macintosh mouse? There appears to be no fix for that issue yet, but many folks are affected and there is work ongoing to come up with a fix.

[rokssolana (rokssolana)]

mikelococo, you're quite right. This bug seems to be a duplicate of #550625, though the Alps model may be different. I'll sign as affected there and hope the bug is fixed soon. Thanks.

[Gursimran singh (simar)]

Hi bug reporter,
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner .There have been many changes in ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.If you could test the current Ubuntu stable release(maverick ubuntu 10.10),this would help us a lot.