Comment 13 for bug 288332

Sorry, I may not have actually had any touchpad settings directly in xorg.conf as you give in your example--I think I removed those from xorg.conf when I began using synclient, before I upgraded to Intrepid. So probably the only thing not working in xorg.conf was the shmconfig value.

Even though it seems to be working now, I still consider this an important bug that should be fixed. There is still no user friendly way to configure touchpads--one should not have to sudo a bunch of stuff and edit xorg.conf or shmconfig.fdi and then run a command line utility over and over again to get the settings right. Currently, my touchpad is almost useless if I limit myself to the configuration options available through the gui. I have written a synclient script that runs whenever I start Gnome and loads my preferred settings, and I have to rerun it from the desktop whenever I disable/enable network settings or suspend my computer (different bug).

Now that I've invested the time to hack my touchpad, I'm ok with it, but I'm sure millions of potential Ubuntu users would rather throw in the towel before spending hours trying to get their pointer to move across the screen at a sane speed.