You should be able to stop Gnome overwriting your settings if you disable its mouse plugin by navigating to "apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/mouse/" in gconf-editor and un- ticking "active", then configure manually with a file in xorg.conf.d (see man sysnaptics for syntax).
@Henrik: Could you point me to the patches/source combo to compile this on other distros/without dkms? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308191 Title: Multitouch support not available for Synaptics touchpads v7.2 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
