If I have time later I may pop in my Jaunty live CD, I am unsure of what changed between then and now as far as default configurations are concerned.. however.. after poking around in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ as well as /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdpolicy (some sites suggest the default file is in "10osvendor"), I managed to come up with a custom FDI file that restored all my synaptics functions back to the way they were.
Andreas will probably slap me for this, as I probably should have checked these earlier, and did not. However, the fdi system is fairly new to some people (myself included), so I am going to attach my custom file in the hopes it will help someone else out and prevent them from also being slapped. As I stated though, it is unclear to me whether this change was intended or not. In the case where it was accidental, I suppose it'd still be considered a bug. If it was intended, I am certain this bug report will eventually be closed. At any rate, the attached file is my fdi policy. The quick instructions are; Download to .. wherever. sudo cp 99-x11-synaptics.fdi /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ reboot I added some comments in the file as to what things are, most are fairly self explanatory. Any questions about it can be emailed to me directly through my profile and I can try to help you out. ** Attachment added: "My Custom synaptics FDI profile" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27621327/99-x11-synaptics.fdi -- [Karmic] Touchpad not recognised correctly, synaptics driver not in use https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380126 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp