Comment 46 for bug 133060

Looking at the current upstream git tree for synaptics there's been a lot of changes, but it doesn't look like this particular bug has been fixed (near as I can tell anyway).

Nicolas' patch is tempting however I'm worried it would potentially affect behavior for non-bugged hardware too.

Fortunately, there's another approach. We can just set a quirk specifically for the Inspiron 6400, to implement Nicolas' workaround of treating left-bottom edge taps as left-button clicks. I *think* this should solve the issue, and won't risk breaking other hardware. (No code changes either!)

If you have an "Inspiron 6400" and version 1.2.2-2ubuntu6 does *not* fix it for you, please reopen this bug report.

If you have something other than an "Inspiron 6400" but think you have this same problem, please file a new bug report and attach your /proc/bus/input/devices file, like in comment #1. You can use this bug report as a guide on how to diagnose the problem (see especially comment #44). You can test if the quirk would fix your issue by creating an xorg.conf like in comment #1, and test setting the XXCornerButton options to 1 or 3.

We'll be moving to the 1.3.0 driver soonish in natty, probably within a month. Like I mentioned, it *might* have a fix for this issue but I can't be certain. If anyone gets the chance to test the upstream driver (or the one in Debian experimental currently) it would be great to hear your findings.