[ubuntu] Touchpad Detected as Mouse on Sager NP8690, Scrolling Not Working

Hi folks,

Just got a new Sager NP8690 laptop and installed Ubuntu Karmic on it. Upon installation, I was unable to use the scrolling on the touchpad at all.

The Preference -> Mouse dialog did not display a Touchpad tab.

xinput list says:

Code:

"Virtual core pointer" id=0 [XPointer] Num_buttons is 32 Num_axes is 2 Mode is Relative Motion_buffer is 256 Axis 0 : Min_value is -1 Max_value is -1 Resolution is 0 Axis 1 : Min_value is -1 Max_value is -1 Resolution is 0 ... "ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse" id=9 [XExtensionPointer] Type is MOUSE Num_buttons is 13 Num_axes is 2 Mode is Relative Motion_buffer is 256 Axis 0 : Min_value is -1 Max_value is -1 Resolution is 1 Axis 1 : Min_value is -1 Max_value is -1 Resolution is 1

I tried changing xorg.conf to use the synaptics driver, with the following changes to that section:

Code:

Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "SHMConfig" "on" EndSection

Upon rebooting, the same issue occurred. I tried installing gsynaptics with sudo apt-get install gsynaptics but upon trying to run it directly after rebooting, I get:

Code:

GSynaptics couldn't initialize. You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics.

Same error if I access Preferences -> Touchpad. At this point I'm lost as to how to proceed. Any ideas?