turns out I had'nt removed all the old xorg settings that were necessary before. removing a few leftover lines in xorg.conf.d seems to have fixed the problem
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1767178 Title: Bionic: ALPS GlidePoint uses wrong driver, works badly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1767178/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs