By default, USB Synaptics devices are bound to the kernel's generic USB HID driver. To use the USB Synaptics driver from this package, run /usr/sbin/synaptics-usb-rebind to_synaptics-usb You can revert back to using the generic USB HID driver with /usr/sbin/synaptics-usb-rebind to_usbhid NOTE: synaptics-usb upstream is working on getting the driver into the upstream kernel, so this package is to be considered a temporary band-aid until Linux 2.6.30 or .31 arrive with synaptics-usb included.