Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

Running feisty on a laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. After installation
of feisty, everything works fine.

The touchpad has a 4-way scroll button in the middle of the two standard
buttons. Tapping on the touchpad is interpreted as a click or double
click. Double-tap-and-hold-and-drag works as click-and-drag.

If I remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf, everything keeps on running OK, (in fact
it *seems* faster -- can it be?) but the touchpad loses its tap-and-drag
and scroll-key abilities, and acts as a simple mouse, just as if there
were no Synaptics entry in xorg.conf. In fact, Xorg.0.log has these
lines:

(WW) The core pointer device wasn't specified explicitly in the layout.
        Using the default mouse configuration.

If I restore xorg.conf, everything goes back to normal.

I know this is not an even slightly severe bug, but it seems to be a bug
in hardware detection nonetheless, so I though I might as well report
it.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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If xorg.conf is removed, Synaptics touchpad not detected
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112664
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