Touchpad too slow -- how do I adjust it?

Apparently this is a recurring problem. I tried System->Preferences->Mouse but it didn't help.

There's a lot of info on the web on this, but it is outdated (Ubuntu 7.04 and 8.04).
Any tips on how to fix this?

Might be worth installing the new gpointing-device-settings package to see if that makes a difference. It has a fairly extensive number of options to control speed, acceleration and so on.

sudo apt-get install gpointing-device-settings

I had the same problem with my Dell. In the mouse options, try increasing the speed but decreasing the sensitivity.

What laptop do you have? Some Lenovo Thinkpads have options in the following files:

$ cat /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/speed
97
$ cat /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/sensitivity
128