No Touchpad Tab in Mouse Settings

[balisada]

I bought an Acer Aspire One Netbook and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but the Touchpad tab in the mouse settings is missing.

How do I enable it?

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid).

Thanks.


Balisada

[Halfling Rogue]

Same problem on an Asus K70IC. Would reaaally like to be able to disable the touchpad click; it keeps selecting when I don't want it to.

[kerry_s]

try installing "gpointing-device-settings".

you can also put "synclient TapButton1=0" in your startup instead.

[Halfling Rogue]

Tried gpointing, but it only shows the option for a wheel mouse, which hasn't ever been connected to the laptop.

Which startup file does that go in?

[kerry_s]

Tried gpointing, but it only shows the option for a wheel mouse, which hasn't ever been connected to the laptop.

Which startup file does that go in?

system-> preferences-> startup applications

run it from a terminal first to check it works.
accessories-> terminal

[Halfling Rogue]

system-> preferences-> startup applications

run it from a terminal first to check it works.
accessories-> terminal

"Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

I take it gsynaptics is the package I need here?

[Halfling Rogue]

Bump de-bump.

[kerry_s]

"Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

I take it gsynaptics is the package I need here?

that means your touchpad is reading as a normal ps2 type mouse instead of a touchpad.

[Halfling Rogue]

Well that's bizarre. Is there a way to fix it?

[kerry_s]

Well that's bizarre. Is there a way to fix it?

i'm sure there is, but i don't know how. try hitting up google with your aspire 1 model #, i'm sure some 1 has had to have dealt with that.