Comment 6 for bug 379517

For those of you that still has this problem, here is a temporary workaround until it gets fixed.

During the process of verifying some code in the synaptic.c that looks questionable, I stumbled upon the fact that if I uninstalled the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package, my Alps touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 1720 works very smoothly with no stuttering. I can now rock my finger on the touchpad to make tiny adjustments to the cursor position, something that I could not do with the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package in 9.04. Basic touchpad settings are now configured using the Mouse applet.