Sounds like a hardware issue, I've never had that.  On all other
operating systems tap-to-click is default and I believe it should be
in Ubuntu also.  (Besides, do touchpads even report if they have a
button or not at hardware level?)

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> When not having a button the tap on click should be actived
> automatically, for users having a button that can be discussed but
> better to use mailing than a bug report about that. Not sure how other
> user manage to work with that option one but I keep clicking while
> scrolling when it's on there
>
> --
> Touchpad Tap Clicking Broken (scrolling also)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404219
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
>
> the gnome-settings-daemon update (2.27.3-0ubuntu2) disabled these touchpad 
> functions:
>
> - no tap clicking
> - no vertical/horizontal scrolling
>
> Other people have the same problem:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1221888
>
> Touchpad settings in xorg.conf or via HAL don't fix the problem. (see 
> attached HAL configuration file)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Jul 24 18:34:16 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
>  PATH=(custom, no user)
>  LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.21-generic
> SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic i686
>

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Touchpad Tap Clicking Broken (scrolling also)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404219
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