Gsynaptics were specifically for synaptics based touchpads, IIRC. Can you please try and install gpointing-device-settings with your universe repositories enabled.
gpointing-device-settings | 1.3.1-2 | karmic/universe | source, amd64, i386 gpointing-device-settings | 1.3.2-2 | lucid/universe | source, amd64, i386 gpointing-device-settings | 1.5.1-2 | maverick/universe | source, amd64, i386 This seems to be the replacement for the gsynaptics according to: http://gsynaptics.sourceforge.jp/#Announce. Thanks for your time, Chris C. -- GSynaptics couldn't initialize. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132627 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs