Bug#362853: I had the same problem

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

reassign 362853 xfree86-driver-synaptics
forwarded 362853 petero2ATteliaDOTcom
merge 362853 351621
thanks

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 06:53:43PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> I had the same problem. I have a "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" ( cat
> /proc/bus/input/devices )
> 
> According to: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad , the
> "InoutDevice" section should be very different for Synaptic users as opposed
> to ALPS users.

this is an xserver-xorg-input-synaptcs (from xfree86-driver-synaptics
source) known problem: it should use decent defaults for ALPS.
I will deal with it soon.

thanks
-- 
mattia
:wq!