touchpad issue for ubuntu 11.10

[mx760]

I'm having problems with touchpad on my Sony Vaio S Intel Core i5 dual core Windows 7 64 bit laptop. I am new to Ubuntu and Linux in general so the best, simplest and precise answers always good.

I have turned on edge scrolling in System settings > Mouse and Touchpad, and pinch to zoom (multi-touch) also doesn't work.

Any help appreciated.

[xyzzyman]

Pinch-to-zoom isn't supported yet. It appears the next version of Xorg will have it though. Holding ctrl and scrolling zooms in/out in a lot of apps. If it's a synaptic pad you can enable two finger scroll by modifying an xorg file if that interests you.

[mx760]

Do you means Synaptics manufacturer, so how do I check what the manufacturer of my Sony Vaio S is, and yes I am interested in doing xorg, but not sure what that is. Step by steps and simple instructions the best.

Any help appreciated.

[xyzzyman]

Xorg is the graphical server that is the backend of all your graphics outside of text-only mode. I'm not sure if that release will make it into the next version of Ubuntu or not. And even then, I think applications will have support the feature specifically but that's an uninformed guess.