The Ramblings of a Fosgnilbmareht

I reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop recently because certain issues with my Vista install made me not want to trust it. I have had Ubuntu installed before on my laptop, but not for a few months. I really like Linux but need Windows sometimes for those few apps that don’t work too well in Wine. Overall, I have been happy with Linux on my laptop, with a few notable exceptions including:

• Can’t adjust the brightness on my laptop (will look into a fix later)
• Touchpad vertical scroll area was way too big. My laptop has a spot on the Touchpad dedicated to scrolling and Ubuntu recognized this, but doubled its size so it was on the other side of the line also
• Not as easy to connect a phone as a modem as it is in Windows. Windows it is literally plug and play. Linux has not been so easy

The first and third issues I will work out, if I can, but I felt the second one was a priority since at times my screen would scroll instead of moving the mouse around like I wanted it to. These are the steps I followed to fix this:

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