Can not disable touchpad while typing with bcm5974 touchpad

Bug #879272 reported by Séverin Lemaignan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The checkbox "Disable touchpad while typing" has no effect with the MacBook 7.1 touchpad (Broadcom bcm5974).

Note that other settings like scrolling work fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 21 09:32:20 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-20 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
 indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1

Revision history for this message
Séverin Lemaignan (skadge) wrote :
affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
bugbot (bugbot)
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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