Scrolling coasting no longer works in Precise Pangolin

[Claude Krantz]

After upgrading to Precise (x86_64), the "coasting scrolling" feature of my Thinkpad T400 touchpad no longer seems to work. Scrolling itself works fine, both by (emulated) two-finger touch or at the edge of the pad, but coasting does not seem to get triggered even if I move my fingers across the sensor as fast as I can. I tried various settings of the "CoastingSpeed" and "CoastingFriction" options with no effect. It seems like the feature is disabled in the latest version of the synaptics driver (xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.5.99.902-0ubuntu4) shipping with Precise Pangolin. Coasting was working on the same system with Oneiric just a few days ago.

All driver settings as reported by synclient are attached.

[Claude Krantz (puma)]

I found an older description of this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/+bug/930938

that seems to be actively worked on. Marking this as duplicate.