Comment 10 for bug 545307

@Mary:

If I had to guess, I think these are issues with the mouse preferences. I just confirmed with a colleague that Karmic's mouse preferences are broken in this regard (I'm running Lucid now, and it works for me here). That functionality is also above the kernel. There's probably another launchpad bug about it somewhere :).

For now, I just need to confirm that all the buttons and touchpad work properly, and that the synaptics driver is being used. If you can control settings using gsynaptics, then I think we're all set.