Bug#576719: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: multitouch emulation stopped working

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 08:31:43PM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Version: 1.2.1-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,  The multitouch emulation on m Acer Aspire 1810TZ suddenly stopped working.
> It was working fine using a local udev rules file, containing:
> ENV{x11_driver}="synaptics" ENV{x11_options.VertEdgeScroll}="true"
> ENV{x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll}="true"
> ENV{x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinW}="7"
> ENV{x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ}="20"
> ENV{x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll}="true"
> ENV{x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll}="true"  I have seen that xorg is not

So you had two finger scrolling working and it suddenly stopped stopped?
No driver upgrade recently?
Can you see what this command returns?
	$ grep synaptics /var/log/dpkg.log{,.1}

> switching back to using xorg.conf syntax in xorg.conf.d, which I have tried
> using the same options, without success; Section "InputClass"   Driver
> "synaptics"   Identifier    "touchpad"   Option        "VertEdgeScroll"
> "true"   Option        "HorizEdgeScroll"       "true"   Option
> "EmulateTwoFingerMinW"  "7"   Option        "EmulateTwoFingerMinZ"  "20"
> Option        "VertTwoFingerScroll"   "true"   Option
> "HorizTwoFingerScroll"  "true" EndSection   I have even tried building the

I never played too much with two finger emulation, not really sure what
might be going on here.
Can you include the output of
	$ synclient -l

Thanks
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mattia
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