(In case somebody is interested) Thanks to Martin Berger I finally got my touchpad to work :-) I noticed I was using the rather old synaptics-0.11.3 that came with Gentoo's XFree when I installed somewhen in October or September... Simply re-emerging XFree installed synaptics-0.12.0 and it finally works with the suggested config from the synaptics docs. Even tapping the upper right corner gives a middle mouse click! That's impressing :-) Chris - installing 2.6.1-rc1-mm2 -- http://cknoerle.homelinux.org/nx9000 //www.freelists.org/list/nx9000