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I had the following issues with my Sony Vaio E14115's touchpad on Ubuntu 12.04:

  1. Right click not working
  2. Vertical scrolling not working

Then I followed these steps to fix it:

  1. Downloaded a patch for Psmouse
  2. sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential
  3. cd ~/Desktop
  4. tar jxvf psmouse-3.2.0-24-generic-pae.tar.bz2
  5. sudo mv psmouse-3.2.0-24-generic-pae /usr/src
  6. cd /usr/src
  7. sudo chmod -R a+rx psmouse-3.2.0-24-generic-pae
  8. sudo dkms add -m psmouse -v 3.2.0-24-generic-pae
  9. sudo dkms build -m psmouse -v 3.2.0-24-generic-pae
  10. sudo dkms install -m psmouse -v 3.2.0-24-generic-pae
  11. sudo modprobe -r psmouse
  12. sudo modprobe psmouse

This fixed me the problems of Rightclick and vertical scrolling.

But I still have an issue of not able to click and drag ie Clicking the leftmouse button and dragging with another finger. It doesn't move! Maybe it doesn't detect the 2nd finger.

When I check the capabilities of my Synaptics touchpad by using

xinput list-props "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"|grep Capabilities

I get the following output:

Synaptics Capabilities (304): 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Please help me out.

Nabeel
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I wrote a blog on configuring touchpad on my lubuntu set-up for the netbook. I wanted to disable tap to click but I link to instructions and you can try whichever suit you. It should work on other distros fine but I have only tested it on lubuntu.

how to set a config custom touchpad configuration

Magpie
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I couldn't test your patch solution as you have not provided the link to the patch you used. However, I found that the following from this answer worked for me on my SVS1511:

sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps

This restored right-click and vertical scrolling for me. To make this permanent, create /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf and put this line in it:

options psmouse proto=imps

That should ensure the option is loaded at boot. No patching of psmouse is necessary.

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