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[ubuntu] Multitouch and synaptics-dkms errors

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on an HP Envy 14 installed with the Desktop CD. I'm also dual booting with Windows 7. This is only my second week using Linux and no other threads I've found online have solved my problem, so hopefully I can get some useful support here. When I first installed Ubuntu, my system supported two finger scrolling, two fingers for right click, and three fingers for middle mouse button, but I have since lost that functionality. My only guess as to what happened is that I could have installed a package through another tutorial that is causing problems with these gestures, bu (Hardware)

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