I know that my touchpad is capable of it. I can enable glitch-free two-finger scrolling by running this script:
#! /bin/sh
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=10
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48
However, in the "Mouse" preferences GUI, the "two-finger scrolling" option is greyed out. It worked fine on my old laptop.
Here is the output of sudo lshw -sanitize
, if it makes a difference.
Best Answer
This is my understanding of it. Ubuntu doesn't have support for the Synaptics touchpad
officiallyout of the box, so what that script does is it emulates the multi-touch. I think. I don't know for sure, but that is my understanding of that. (I myself have a Synapatics trackpad on my Asus Eee PC, so I've spent a far amount of time working on this.)