Comment 39 for bug 582809

The Clickpad button detection was performed in the kernel in Ubuntu 10.04. The upstream kernel has since been changed so that the Clickpad button detection is now performed in xorg-input-synaptics. The problem is that the current Ubuntu 10.10 kernel uses the upstream kernel with patches from 10.04 for button detection. That means that there is conflicting code in the Ubuntu 10.10 kernel. Furthermore, I don't think there are provisions in Ubuntu 10.10's xorg-input-synaptics for Clickpad button detection.

The attached patch will clean up the current Ubuntu 10.10 kernel so that button detection is performed in the kernel like Ubuntu 10.04. However, The best solution would be to use the upstream Clickpad code in the kernel as well as in xorg-input-synaptics. Additionally, there are patches available to make the LED on the Clickpad work properly that should be applied.