is this still happening with the X stack from squeeze/sid, or the one from experimental?
Unfortunately, I don't know. I don't have that laptop anymore, and on my new one synaptics doesn't seem to be able to handle multitouch at all (which is probably a bug because the laptop is quite modern).
-- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com