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Synaptics Touchpad does not work correctly on Acer Aspire 5601AWLMi

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Open a Terminal. Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Backup xorg.conf first
Quote:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Quote:

gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and put this info in
Quote:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
EndSection

and insert the following line into the "ServerLayout" section
Quote:

InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"

Now save the file

and then in terminal run:
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

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Posted on: 2006/10/31 11:09

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