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[Dennis van Dok <dvandok@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm getting this behaviour as well on Karmic, on a Macbook2,1.

I've not configured the device in xorg.conf and I'm not aware that I had
to do anything special to get it working.

The following steps show the problem:

$ synclient -s -l | grep TapButton
    TapButton1              = 1
    TapButton2              = 3
    TapButton3              = 2

Now run gsynaptics and turn tapping OFF. Close gsynaptics

$ synclient -s -l | grep TapButton
    TapButton1              = 0
    TapButton2              = 3
    TapButton3              = 0

Disconnect/connect external mouse will reset the status:

$ synclient -s -l | grep TapButton
    TapButton1              = 1
    TapButton2              = 3
    TapButton3              = 2

But curiously, If you disable HAL:

# /etc/init.d/hal stop

And repeat the above process, the above phenomenon does not occur. Of course, disabling HAL is not a good idea.
I'm not sure which settings govern the behaviour of HAL ("open the pod bay doors, HAL"); I've tried /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi but it seems to have no effect.

And finally, one more oddity: only some of the settings are affected,
like VertTwoFingerScroll and TapButton, but not others like MaxTapTime
or AccelFactor.



** Tags added: karmic

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Enable Tapping gets reset when external mouse is attached.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319057
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