Help With Synaptics Touchpad Issue

[Don Parris]

I am going nuts trying to figure out the deal with my laptop touchpad.
Arrrrrgggghhh!

I'm using Ubuntu Dapper on a Dell Latitude C610.  I have not been able to
get the touchpad working properly so far.  Until a storm hit last night, I
had my laptop working fine with a PS/2 mouse.  For some reason, when the
storm knocked out our power, that put the laptop in battery mode, and I
can't even get the PS/2 mouse to work anymore.

The pointer is just all over the screen, mainly going from lower-left to
upper-right corners, and back again.  It sometimes switches virtual desktops
on me, which is even more aggravating - especially if I happen to be typing
something, like this e-mail.  I have included my /proc info, a note
concerning my /dev/input/eventX stuff, and my full Xorg.conf file (minus the
comments).

Any chance some guru can help me solve this thing?  Thanks in advance!

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=1007 2002000 4380207a f840d001 f2ffffdf ffefffff ffffffff ffffffff
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input1
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/class/input/input2
H: Handlers=mouse0 event2 ts0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103

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Note from Synaptics driver site:
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Some distributions come with an incomplete /dev directory. The driver needs
the /dev/input/eventX device nodes. Try to create them manually if they
don't exist already. (Look at /proc/bus/input/devices to figure out how many
nodes you need.)

I have /dev/input/event0-3 dirs.

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Xorg.conf file
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Section "Files"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/CID"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath    "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        # paths to defoma fonts
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    FontPath    "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "GLcore"
    Load    "i2c"
    Load    "bitmap"
    Load    "ddc"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "extmod"
    Load    "freetype"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "int10"
    Load    "type1"
    Load    "vbe"
    Load    "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
    Driver        "kbd"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel"    "pc104"
    Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
    Driver        "mouse"
    Option        "CorePointer"
    # Option        "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "Protocol"        "ImPS/2"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons"    "true"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping"        "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier    "Synaptics Touchpad"
    Driver        "synaptics"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents"    "true"
    Option        "Device"        "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Protocol"        "auto-dev"
    Option        "LeftEdge"      "1700"
      Option        "RightEdge"     "5300"
      Option        "TopEdge"       "1700"
      Option        "BottomEdge"    "4200"
      Option        "FingerLow"    "25"
      Option        "FingerHigh"    "30"
      Option        "MaxTapTime"    "180"
      Option        "MaxTapMove"    "220"
      Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
      Option        "MinSpeed"    "0.09"
      Option        "MaxSpeed"    "0.18"
      Option        "AccelFactor"    "0.0015"
      Option        "SHMConfig"    "on"
    Option        "HorizScrollDelta"    "100"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M6 LY)"
    Driver        "ati"
    BusID        "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier    "Generic Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Default Screen"
    Device        "ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 9000 (M6 LY)"
    Monitor        "Generic Monitor"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        1
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        4
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        8
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        15
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        16
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Depth        24
        Modes        "1024x768"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Default Layout"
    Screen        "Default Screen"
    InputDevice    "Generic Keyboard"
    InputDevice    "Configured Mouse"
    InputDevice    "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode    0666
EndSection
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