[SLUG] Ubuntu touchpad issues

[Edwin Humphries <humphries.edwin@xxxxxxxxx>]

G'day all,

I'm wondering whether anyone has had success at resolving Ubuntu 
touchpad issues? My daughter and I both have dual-boot (Win7 64/Ubuntu 
11.10 64) laptops; mine is an Acer Travelmate 5740 and hers a Fujitsu 
Lifebook S6410. the Acer has a Synaptic PS/2 touchpad, and the Fujitsu a 
"Microsoft" PS/2 touchpad.

I can go into some detail on my case - her laptop's not here, but I'm 
hoping the fix will sort hers out as well.

A USB wireless mouse plugged in to the Acer works fine; however nothing 
on the touchpad works.

The "Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server" is installed and after 
installing tpconfig the Touchpad tab is present under Mouse and Touchpad 
settings. I installed "gpointing-device-settings", which also recognises 
the device and provides for its configuration. But neither actually do 
anything.

I've added 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i8042.nopnp"' to the grub conf, and the 
touchpad works at the login screen, so I'm assuming it's something 
associated with X, but I'm very inexpert in even understanding X, let 
alone debugging it, so: does anyone have ideas?

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