This also affects clausoft MNW737 "meenee" netbook. In that case, "tpconfig" appears to detect Synaptics touchpad, but when it tries to adjust the zthreshold it fails to do so. It also fails to unset tap-to- click.
I noted in the duplicate bug 728558 that there's a similar bug 754344 where the fix is a patch to psmouse.ko to detect a new variant of touchpad hardware. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/727259 Title: Dell Precision M4500 trackpad is detected as a PS/2 Generic Mouse -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs