John Kapnogiannis wrote: t would certainly explain the problem.
I did this to fix it, restart X and hal afterwards:http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2008/10/11/scrolling-with-the-thinkpads-trackpoint-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid/ Unfortunately that didn't work for me. Any other ideas?? In any cause I think a bug report should be made. The problem probably exists in all synaptics users so if someone installs squeeze he won't be able to use his touchpad properly. Do you agree?Absolutely, i would have reported the bug, but i didn't know which package to report it on. Is it HAL, X or the synaptics package which is at fault?Well as someone already said, the driver wasn't removed. So two things remain hal and X. The problem in my case showed up when I installed the X server updates. So maybe we should report the bug on the xserver package?? :S I think it's ok to post in xserver, although it may be wrong. Someone with better knowledge will respond and merge/move it. Hope someone can help me fix this cause it's really annoying :(
I have just had a similar problem with Logitech trackballs which I fixed with a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ fdi file (bug #547001) which I lodged against hal.
I suggest that you use lshal and look for the info.product string for your touchpad. http://www.felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2008/10/11/scrolling-with-the-thinkpads-trackpoint-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid/ reports "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"but your kernel.system/firmware may use a different string, and that might be the problem.
One you have spotted the right string, put a matching file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ and then restart hal (/etc/init.d/hal restart). Then use lshal again to check that the input.x11_options are being picked up properly.
Once you have got that far, if it is still not working, then use the old /etc/X11/xorg.conf options to put into your /etc/hal/fdi/policy/trackpad.fdi and see what happens. As other had said, after restarting hal also restart X (cntrl-alt-backsp will probably do it if console-set is configured properly).
It looks as if the recent xserver upgrade has broken almost all slightly non standard X configurations because a full set of fdi files were not also shipped. Whether in hal, hal-info or maybe xserver-fdi? :-(
ael