Bug#420221: x11-common: Generates duplicate InputDevice when synaptics touchpad present

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: x11-common
> Version: 1:7.1.0-16
> Severity: normal
>
> On this system, the automatically generated xorg.conf contained the following:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
>        Driver          "synaptics"
>        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
>        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
>        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
>        Option          "HorizScrollDelta"      "0"
> EndSection
>
> However, /dev/input/mice includes the data returned from /dev/psaux.  This
> causes duplicate mouse events and odd mouse behavior.
>   

What kind of system is this? How many input devices did you have plugged
when the xorg.conf got generated?

Brice