Comment 5 for bug 263451

The trackpad-also-works-as-a-mouse solution to this bug

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/263451

is now upstream in these three commits:

158e0fb6028a2329425d8287b1b2402a12ed4f28
75e21e3f3bb2b4a41bb0646a4d54eef27eb36ca5
a6821f345fd508b17f5ce310b677b37aefb028dc

The make-xorg-load-synaptics-by-default solution is in
progress, with changes appearing in the 0.15.1 version
of the xorg synaptics driver.

Henrik