Ok, i figured that the clickpad mode does not get initialized for my touchpad.
If you take a look at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=blob;f=drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c;h=b76374c80989df1eba6e98c93b5f3dbabd8014ae;hb=HEAD in synaptics_init() at line 773 i should be seeing clickpad enabled in dmesg but this is what i get: $ dmesg | grep -i synaptics [ 10.712182] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.4, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xd04771/0xe40000/0x5a0400 [ 10.790705] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input13 -- system does not power off https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557072 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs