Bug#461760: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Synaptics touchpad completely stops working under gdm, xdm, kdm ... and X (gnome, openbox, kde...)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 22:41:44 +0200, Laurent CARON wrote:

> I simply did remove the line:
> Option "AlwaysCore"
> from the InputDevice section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> So... more than a bug it seems to be a mistake in my config.
>
That config presumably worked with xserver 1.3, so it'd be better if we
didn't break it.  Could you rebuild the X server with the following
patch, and see if that works (with the AlwaysCore option in your
config)?

Thanks,
Julien

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c
index b939fb7..ca2be5c 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c
+++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ _X_EXPORT void
 xf86ProcessCommonOptions(LocalDevicePtr local,
                          pointer	list)
 {
-    if (xf86SetBoolOption(list, "AlwaysCore", 0) ||
+    if (!xf86SetBoolOption(list, "AlwaysCore", 1) ||
         !xf86SetBoolOption(list, "SendCoreEvents", 1) ||
         !xf86SetBoolOption(list, "CorePointer", 1) ||
         !xf86SetBoolOption(list, "CoreKeyboard", 1)) {