Bug#564211: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Lost tapping after upgrading to 1.2.1-1
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 15:53:11 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 13:59:50 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> >
> >> Just did an upgrade:
> >> 2010-01-08 11:04:22 upgrade xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.0-2 1.2.1-1
> >>
> >> and lost tapping in the process. The buttons still work, but I'm kind
> >> of accustomed to use tapping for most of my clicking activities.
> >>
> >> Any advice on where to look is appreciated.
> >>
> > How did you configure tapping?
>
> I used a hal fdi file as per the previous recommendations. Which I see
> still are in the docs. This needs to be fixed and some note about udev
> rules should be added to NEWS.
>
Ack the doc needs updating.
> Right after sending the bug report, I realized that this is just another
> example of the hal => udev transition biting users. Could we please try
> to make this transition as seemless as possible, attempting to keep any
> prior configuration if possible?
>
I'd really prefer not to do that. Configuring stuff in hal or udev is
just a stopgap until X grows a way to handle hotplugged devices in
xorg.conf (which will happen with xserver 1.8), so I think we shouldn't
recommend/document this as the way to go. Plus we have tools and
protocol for runtime configuration anyway.
(See
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html for
a description of the way things are going)
Cheers,
Julien
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