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[Bryce Harrington <133060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking at the current upstream git tree for synaptics there's been a
lot of changes, but it doesn't look like this particular bug has been
fixed (near as I can tell anyway).

Nicolas' patch is tempting however I'm worried it would potentially
affect behavior for non-bugged hardware too.

Fortunately, there's another approach.  We can just set a quirk
specifically for the Inspiron 6400, to implement Nicolas' workaround of
treating left-bottom edge taps as left-button clicks.  I *think* this
should solve the issue, and won't risk breaking other hardware.  (No
code changes either!)

If you have an "Inspiron 6400" and version 1.2.2-2ubuntu6 does *not* fix
it for you, please reopen this bug report.

If you have something other than an "Inspiron 6400" but think you have
this same problem, please file a new bug report and attach your
/proc/bus/input/devices file, like in comment #1.  You can use this bug
report as a guide on how to diagnose the problem (see especially comment
#44).  You can test if the quirk would fix your issue by creating an
xorg.conf like in comment #1, and test setting the XXCornerButton
options to 1 or 3.

We'll be moving to the 1.3.0 driver soonish in natty, probably within a
month.  Like I mentioned, it *might* have a fix for this issue but I
can't be certain.  If anyone gets the chance to test the upstream driver
(or the one in Debian experimental currently) it would be great to hear
your findings.

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Synaptic touchpad fails to register some of the taps for tap-to-click
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