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["P. Dunbar" <drsilk@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't seem to have a big sensitivity problem.  I am currenlty using the .fdi file I have on the wiki (not sure if its the same I uploaded here at this point).  
My big issue with the touchpad is the dragging as you mentioned as well.  In Mac OSX I primarily will drag with holding my thumb clicked down on the bottom and moving my finger above that for the drag.  I can continuously lift up my finger and put it down to keep the drag going.  I can't get anywhere close to this functionality and I've tried a lot.  
I also then tried to get coasting working, figuring if I can't drag that way at least if I hit the bottom of my touchpad while dragging and still want to drag more it would continue to drag.  Again, I tried setting these settings in the .fdi and they seemed to do nothing at all.  So i'm beginning to think that only some of the functionality you can use detailed withing 'man synaptics' is actually picked up or used by this current bcm5974.
Any ideas welcome.

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[Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported (Alpha 5 of Jaunty)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337935
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Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
Status in The Linux Kernel: Confirmed
Status in Mactel Support: Triaged
Status in XOrg-Driver-Synaptics - synaptics driver for XOrg: Invalid
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xorg

The touchpad for MacBook 5.1 is not supported completely in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) as of Alpha 5 release. The pointer can move, and a physical left-click works, but that's it. I can not get tapping to respond as I could using the Mactel PPA packages with Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). I added the attached FDI policy file for the touchpad, and manually added the module bcm5974 to my /etc/modules file, however, Xorg is not loading or is not recognizing the touchpad policies. This file worked on Intrepid. The custom bcm5974-dkms package from the Mactel PPA provided support in Intrepid.