It's possible that the installer fails to recognize this MacBook as a laptop, and therefore does not install the synaptics driver. The bug must then be reassigned to another package, I would suggest "ubiquity" for a first shot.
I am not sure which mechanism is used nowadays, but can you anyway try: laptop-detect && echo yes and see if it returns "yes" ? -- Touchpad does not work on MacBookPro4,1 in Jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336523 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs