vertical scrolling area moved to extreme right

Does tapping work for you? I wonder if this is related to bug #262849 as I am seeing this effect as well as not being able to tap.

Yes although there is a setting for tapping in the touchpad section of the mouse preferences window, unlike this where there is no way to easily set the scrolling area using a GUI.

touchpad scrolling doesn't work for me at all (gsynaptics says that its turned on)
I've got this behavior with update, mentioned before.

Vertical scroll doesn't work for me eather.
dell d830

The only recent change that I can see in this area is that the Synaptics driver will now respect what the hardware tells it about the widths of the edges. Previously it had hardcoded defaults that were used regardless of what the hardware said.

You can try to adjust them with the xinput command line program. The "Synaptics Edges" property of the touchpad lets one customise the same options as {Left,Right,Top,Bottom}Edge, but without having to restart X or obtain root privileges.

should be fixed by 0.15.2 in intrepid.

Thanks for the fix, it's working.

Doesn't work for me. I don't have any scroll (horiz/vert), but gsynaptics says that i should.

$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics:
  Installed: 0.15.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.15.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.15.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'm experiencing the same problem on my laptop. However, after suspending the computer and resuming just afterwards, the vertical scroll works again. The only thing I've changed since upgrading to Ibex is adding the Option VertScroll "true" to xorg.conf.

I've attached the corresponding syslog for this matter.