Re: Bug#351621: xfree86-driver-synaptics: Default configuration inadequate, mouse move way to slowly ...
forwarded 351621 petero2ATteliaDOTcom
thanks
[Forwarding to Peter (upstream maintainer) to know his opinion]
Peter, you should have enough context to figure out what's happening.
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:49:51PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Mattia Dongili wrote:
[...]
> > README.alps is pretty clear about the problem being a different
> > resolution on different touchpad models (Synaptics v/s ALPS) so either
> > one needs a specific configuration.
> > Can you try the suggested ALPS configuration in README.alps? If that
> > works the bug can be closed (IMO).
>
> IMO it can't ... the driver should auto-detect the kind of Touchpad and
> adjust the default values of the resolution stuff so that it works out of
> the box on *any* hardware.
>
> If upstream doesn't want that (and I could understand that since I don't
> know any portable way to auto-detect hardware), then we need to
> auto-install a different configuration when the Debian package detects
> Alps touchpad.
I'm happy also with the latter option (Debian installs the correct
configuration), the only showstopper currently being the fact that I
cannot touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the synaptics driver
install scripts.
And this is IMO the real problem, in fact the driver is even left
unconfigured after installation. If this becomes possible it's pretty
simple to add different Options in xorg.conf based on /sys/class/input
or even /proc/bus/devices/input.
Oh well that would fail on Debian/kFreeBSD but I'm pretty confident
there's a way to detect it there too.
Doing the same in the driver seems overkill to me...
> > Did you experienced any different behaviour with older versions of the
> > debian package?
>
> I have the laptop since December only so I can't say ...
Heh, so we can't talk about "regressions" yet :) You're the first one
reporting this problem to the Debian BTS.
[...]
> > Back to Debian's: currently no setup is done in my package. Probably the
> > modular dexconf will allow a better integration of external drivers in
> > xorg.conf and the touchpad can be automagically configured upon
> > installation. Let's see.
>
> Okay, ccing debian-x to have feedback on this aspect. We certainly need to
> have a way to properly configure a touchpad so that it works "out of the
> box".
There's been a discussion some time ago[1], anyway modular Xorg is shaping
and I'll hopefully find some time to dig into the configuration scripts
soon...
[1]: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/02/msg00172.html
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mattia
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