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[ubuntu] Help with touchpad!

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello all. I've played around with Ubuntu in the past, but would still be called a newbie. I just downloaded Ubuntu 11.10 and installed via wubi. My touchpad however is useless. It it recognized in some form, but when you touch it (no matter how you touch it) the cursor just jump to the top right corn of the screen and can do nothing else. Can turn it on and off via fn-f7 but that's not the problem. It just does nothing but jump and move to the corner. I don't has a usb mouse, this is my only tool for a mouse. I'm using an Acer One. Intel atom netbook. PLEASE HELP! Never had this issue in prev (Hardware)

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