Multitouch touchpad acts as non-multitouch AFTER gdm

[Ing0R]

Binary package hint: gnome-session

My touchpad on my EEEPC 901go is multitouch enabled.
In current Karmic this works in gdm's login window. If I start a GNOME-session, the touchpad switches to single touch mode. If i choose to start a xterm session the touchpad works just fine.

dmesg shows this about my touchpad:
[ 19.822406] elantech.c: assuming hardware version 2, firmware version 2.48
[ 19.898191] elantech.c: Synaptics capabilities query result 0x00, 0x02, 0x64.
[ 20.122749] input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10

This bug also occurs with this todays daily live cd.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 13 15:01:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-session 2.27.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-session
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589944.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598820

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Some early open source work to support multi-touch in the evdev input driver is described at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODMxMw