I don’t have the tap problems you encounter under Ubuntu.

This is my first non-IBM notebook, so I am still getting used to the touchpad instead of the little eraser head, so I might just be tapping hard.

My notebook was only $800ish from cdw.ca, so I cannot complain too much. But I have noticed the same things that you mention above.

Cheers! -Chris

I’ve started using a mouse when I’m in Ubuntu. The part you pasted indeed did not have anything special in terms of configuration options for the touchpad. I guess i’m used to tapping softly in windows.

The graphics card I have is an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600. There are a couple of things I don’t like about this notebook.

1) The keys on the keyboard are very flimsy.
2) No built-in microphone.
3) The audio out port is in the front of the notebook and not on the sides. When I insert plug a set of headphones to the notebook, it kind of gets in the way of my belly.
4) There is lots of bleeding light from the bottom of the screen.

I think I can live with the above issues… because I bought the notebook for $1200 CAD at Staples last month.

Here is the config from my xorg.conf, there isn’t much there, and I cannot find anything that is specific to the touchpad.

– xorg.conf –

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
EndSection

– xorg.conf –

If you want to see the rest of the file let me know.

btw, what graphics card is in your laptop? mine has a crappy ati radeon xpress 200M that appears to not work with Beyrl.

I have a toshiba A100 Sk9, it’s very similar to your notebook. Is there a way you can copy/paste the synaptics section in your xorg.conf file so that I can try out your settings?

I sometimes tap hard and sometimes very light and not all the taps are converted to clicks. In windows, they are always converted to clicks. This is driving me crazy, I don’t want to go back to Windows, not after I installed beryl. I just can’t go back.

Thank you so much!

I havn’t noticed any problems, but now that you mention it, I will keep an eye out for it. So far this morning, I’m getting 100% taps working.

What model of notebook do you have?

Cheers! – Chris

I have a question for you. Did you ever get your synaptics touchpad to work with ubuntu? Around 25% of taps don’t actually click. Do you experience this?