Bug#548357: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: tapping not working anymore (PowerBook G4)

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:13:29PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@debian.at> [2009-09-25 20:51:28 CEST]:
> >  Just to answer the first question right ahead, yes I've read the
> > NEWS.Debian entry about it (though I don't really feel like it's the
> > proper choice to go, not sure if it really is disabled for my system by
> > default though - but with only one button I seriously hope it's *not*
> > turned off by default!). I did what is written in there, as you can see
> > by this output:
> > 
> > #v+
> > rhonda@edna:~$ synclient -l | grep Tap
> >     MaxTapTime              = 350
> >     MaxTapMove              = 42
> >     MaxDoubleTapTime        = 180
> >     SingleTapTimeout        = 180
> >     FastTaps                = 1
> >     TapButton1              = 1
> >     TapButton2              = 2
> >     TapButton3              = 3
> > rhonda@edna:~$ 
> > #v-
> > 
> ...
> 
> > Section "InputDevice"
> ...
> > 	Option		"SHMConfig"	"true"
> > EndSection
> 
>  The relevant part was this, synclient -s was needed instead of regular
> synclient. I would suggest adding a hint with respect to that to the
> NEWS.Debian file.

Thanks for chasing this, a NEWS entry sounds like a good idea. The
shared memory segment is also going to go away completely in the next
major update of the driver.

> * Kamil Kułaga <teodozjan@gmail.com> [2009-09-26 20:04:40 CEST]:
> > After update of xorg tapping and scrolling stopped working.
> > I've tried to use  gpointing-device-settings and gsynaptics
> >  (changing tapping time settings to *long* helped). This is not
> > mac specific bug because I have FS-Amilo laptop. Please check
> > wheter it is helpful for you.
> > 
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > 	Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
> > 	Driver      "synaptics"
> > 	Option	    "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> > 	Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> > 	Option	    "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> > 	Option	    "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
> > EndSection
> 
> rHmm, you seem don't have SHMConfig set to true. Did you try the regular
> synclient commands mentioned in the NEWS.Debian file, and/or can you try
> to do it with the additional option -s too?

it looks like it's not the SHMConfig option for Kamil:
> > (II) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: buttons: left right middle double triple

With this many buttons tapping will be disabled by default.

-- 
mattia
:wq!