Re: touchpad: multitouch stopped working

[David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net>]

I received no response to the first query.  Any suggestions where to
look (e.g. other lists?) to diagnose why synaptics touchpad suddenly
stopped responding to two-finger operations?

-David

David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net> writes:

> Running wheezy on my laptop, the touchpad had been working, complete
> with two-finger scrolling and middle-button emulation.  But at some
> point in the past three weeks or so---possibly after a
> dist-upgrade---all the multi-touch features stopped working.  Mouse
> tracking and single (left) touch-to-click work, as does vertical edge
> scrolling.  But two-finger touch (emulating middle click), and
> two-finger scrolling do not work, even though synclient reports that
> they're turned on.
>
> I presume this is a problem with the synaptics driver, though that
> package doesn't seem to have been upgraded recently as far as I can
> tell.
>
> Any syggestions?  I really miss the multitouch features.
>
> -David