There seems to have been an earlier problem where psmouse loading prior to synaptics would prevent synaptics from loading:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035407 A temporary workaround was to blacklist psmouse and load the module after boot from rc.local I checked the loaded modules and it does look like synaptics is not loading, so maybe this issue has been around for awhile. -- Alps touchpad is recognized but neither gsynaptics nor mouse preferences work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550625 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