I have the same problem with a Dell Latitude E4310 on Maverick, but sadly the kernel upgrade in Proposed hasn't fixed it.
andy@erdos:~$ uname -a Linux erdos 2.6.35-26-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Sun Jan 30 08:27:58 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux andy@erdos:~$ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 10.10 \n \l andy@erdos:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices [...] I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000 N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input12 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=mouse0 event12 B: EV=7 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 andy@erdos:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i mouse [ 5.364] (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled [ 5.621] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0) [ 5.621] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Generic Mouse (/dev/input/event12) [ 5.621] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall" [ 5.621] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: always reports core events [ 5.621] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event12" [ 5.648] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons [ 5.648] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found relative axes [ 5.648] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Found x and y relative axes [ 5.648] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: Configuring as mouse [ 5.648] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 [ 5.648] (**) PS/2 Generic Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200 [ 5.648] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Generic Mouse" (type: MOUSE) [ 5.648] (II) PS/2 Generic Mouse: initialized for relative axes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380126 Title: [Karmic] Touchpad not recognised correctly, synaptics driver not in use -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs