My touchpad is recognised as a mouse, and for this reason I cannot disable it while I'm typing nor can I take advantage of scrolling and multi-touch features that my touchpad should support.
My machine is a netbook HP Mini 210 1000SA and I'm currently using Natty 32bit, but I have experienced this same issue before with Lucid and Maverick.
I've searched the entire web looking after a solution for this, but I haven't found anything but lots of people experiencing the same problem, including users of different machines.
I really hope that there is a solution for this issue or at least that it will be fixed in Natty, as it is really annoying.
Is anyone able to provide us (me and the hundreds of poor souls with the same problem) a relief?
Thank you very much indeed!
P.S.: Information that might help:
angelo@XXX:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=PNP0C0C/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=1
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event3
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=20000 0 20 0 0 0 0 500f 2100002 3803078 f900d401 feffffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HP WMI hotkeys"
P: Phys=wmi/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event4
B: PROP=0
B: EV=23
B: KEY=40 0 0 0 7 0 0 2100400 0 0 0 0
B: SW=22
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=064e Product=f100 Version=0332
N: Name="HP Webcam-50"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:1d.7-4/button
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: PROP=0
B : EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0 0 0 0
I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event6
B: PROP=0
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3e000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
N: Name="PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event7
B: PROP=0
B: EV=7
B : KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HDA Intel Mic at Ext Front Jack"
P: Phys=ALSA
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event8
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=10
I: Bus=0000 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
N: Name="HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Front Jack"
P: Phys=ALSA
S: Sysfs=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event9
B: PROP=0
B: EV=21
B: SW=4
angelo@XXX:~$ xinput --list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Webcam-50 id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
angelo@XXX:~$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i synaptics
[ 21.058] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/event7)
[ 21.058] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 21.058] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: always reports core events
[ 21.058] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
[ 21.068] (--) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 21.068] (--) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found relative axes
[ 21.068] (--) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Found x and y relative axes
[ 21.068] (II) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: Configuring as mouse
[ 21.068] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 21.068] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 21.068] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" (type: MOUSE)
[ 21.069] (II) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: initialized for relative axes.
[ 21.069] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 21.069] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 21.069] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 21.069] (**) PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 21.070] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad (/dev/input/mouse0)
angelo@XXX:~$ xinput --list-props 11
Device 'PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (135): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (137): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (255): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (256): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (257): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (258): 10.000000
Evdev Axis Inversion (259): 0, 0
Evdev Axes Swap (261): 0
Axis Labels (262): "Rel X" (145), "Rel Y" (146)
Button Labels (263): "Button Left" (138), "Button Middle" (139), "Button Right" (140), "Button Wheel Up" (141), "Button Wheel Down" (142)
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (264): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (265): 50
Evdev Wheel Emulation (266): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (267): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (268): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (269): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (270): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (271): 0
angelo@XXX:~$
