I've taken the SuSE patches which add clickpad functionality to the x.org synaptics driver and ported all of them to the Ubuntu xserver- xorg-input-synaptics package (the version currently in Natty).
The result is pretty promising, though I'm doing it to make my wife's HP Envy laptop usable and I do not use the laptop on a daily basis, the basics like click-and-drag, etc, seem to be working (don't ask me about multi-touch, gestures, etc). A tarball of the patches is here (they are as similar to the SuSE patches as possible, 212-fixups.patch contains the additions to make the result compile cleanly): http://david.hardeman.nu/synaptics-suse-patches.tar.bz2 To build your own xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package, do: mkdir tmpbuild cd tmpbuild wget http://david.hardeman.nu/synaptics-suse-patches.tar.bz2 apt-get source xserver-xorg-input-synaptics cd xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-<version> cd debian cd patches tar xfvj ../../../synaptics-suse-patches.tar.bz2 ls -1 2*.patch >> series cd .. cd .. sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot sudo dpkg -i ../xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_<version>_<arch>.deb And then restart your X server Left as an exercise for the reader: You can also build a custom version of the psmouse kernel driver with support for the clickpad enable/disable led using another SuSE patch available here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=kernel-desktop&project=openSUSE%3AFactory File patches.drivers.tar.bz2, patch input-Add-LED-support-to-Synaptics-device The result seems quite crash-prone though -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582809 Title: Synaptics Clickpad touchpad buttons are not working -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs