Comment 17 for bug 422224

Thanks Alberto, I have the same synaptics touchpad as the original reporter but it's in a Dell Studio 15 (1555)

[ 6.018770] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000

Your comments assisted me in implimenting the emulation. But I like Jim Braux-Zin (post #10) DesertBlizzard (post #15) and presumably the original bug reporter Pete Goodall believe our devices to be multi touch capable. My machine has pinch zoom in vista (kept to flash machine bios only) so I am assuming this must mean it has multi touch. I have opened another bug report Bug #476866 and apologise if this is in fact a duplicate its just that I am unsure.

I found that Brad Pitcher's settings also worked for me, thanks Brad. Could this be a case of the synaptic driver not reporting the capabilities of at least this touchpad correctly, hence our requirement to employ the emulation.

@ Brad - in my bug report there is a means of keeping this setting over reboot, but I have specified for "Studio 1555" but trivial to change to your laptop via info from:-
 lshal | grep system.hardware.product