I have seen similar bugs to this, but this bug involves something that only seems to appear when Intrepid is upgraded to Jaunty. In my upgraded install, I have tried gnome-mouse-properties (disabling, reenabling), but this has no effect. This bug is also tracked on launchpad; I was directed to submit the bug here as well, I'll be happy to help in any way that I can. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfree86-driver-synaptics/+bug/368985
Tapping is disabled by default in the driver. Does Ubuntu enable it by default? If you enable tapping in the fdi files, does it work then? what's the output of xinput --list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Created attachment 25323 [details] output of xinput --list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
Adding: <device> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">1</merge> <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">1</merge> </match> </device> into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi enables touchpad click. Ubuntu enables touchpad tapping by default in both Intrepid and Jaunty, but the upgrade to Juanty disabled my tapping to click functionality. I'm trying to track down the issue so that upgrades from those versions do not break the original Ubuntu functionality. I also uploaded the output of xinput --list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" previously, and had uploaded more information to the launchpad bug indicated in my original report.
(In reply to comment #3) > Adding: > > <device> > <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> > <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> > <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge> > <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">1</merge> > <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">1</merge> > </match> > </device> > > into /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi enables touchpad click. Sorry, I need clarification here - do you mean it works if you add this?
It works if I add those lines, yes.
so a quick check showed that intrepid hat 0.15 and jaunty has 0.99. In between those versions, the tap got disabled by default. So it needs to be explicitly enabled. Since merging the fdi key works I claim that's not actually a driver problem but a problem with: - ubuntu's packaging (if they claim that tapping is enabled by default there must be a ubuntu patch enabling it) - gnome-mouse-properties The output of xinput shows that tapping is indeed disabled, so whatever was supposed to enable it didn't work.
Thanks for your help, Peter. > --- Comment #6 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> 2009-04-30 18:17:43 PST --- > so a quick check showed that intrepid hat 0.15 and jaunty has 0.99. In between > those versions, the tap got disabled by default. So it needs to be explicitly > enabled. > > Since merging the fdi key works I claim that's not actually a driver problem > but a problem with: > - ubuntu's packaging (if they claim that tapping is enabled by default there > must be a ubuntu patch enabling it)
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