Bug#513545: same problem

[David Nusinow <david@gravitypulls.net>]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to the new xserver in unstable and I have the same problem. 
> Tapping and scrolling doesn't work.
>
> rrs@champaran:~$ dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics         1.1.0-1                      
> Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
>
>
> This bug report has 2 workarounds mentioned.
>
> One is about modifying the config file. I think that would not be recommended as 
> X is supposed to move to a default config less setup.
>
> How about the 2nd one ? The hal fdi ?
> Should that be packaged ?
>
> How will this bug be fixed ?
>
>   
X is only supposed to move to a setup without config by default. If you 
need to customize it, as by enabling tapping, editing xorg.conf is a 
perfectly acceptable way to do it. If there wasn't supposed to be 
support for xorg.conf, we would have ripped out the code to handle it a 
long time ago. There isn't really a bug to be fixed here, just a changed 
default that people will have to configure by one method or another.

- David Nusinow