The tape appears to be a permanent fix: more than one month later and I have had no repeat occurrences of strange touchpad behaviour (before it was up to several times daily).
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- Touchpad with Synaptics driver works in reverse on Vaio VGN-SZ65GN https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241291 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