Bug#624576: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Touchpad configuration lost after upgrade: InputClass being applied to the wrong devices

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 20:03:38 +0100, ael wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Version: 1.4.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> After the recent testing upgrades, my Synaptics configuration specified
> in my xorg.conf:-
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Section "InputClass"
> 
>         Identifier      "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
> 
>         Option  "LeftEdge"      "1700"
>         Option  "RightEdge"     "5700"
>         Option  "TopEdge"       "1700"
>         Option  "BottomEdge"    "5100"
>         Option  "FingerLow"     "25"
>         Option  "FingerHigh"    "30"
>         Option  "MaxTapTime"    "180"
>         Option  "MaxTapMove"    "220"
>         Option  "VertScrollDelta"       "100"
>         Option  "MinSpeed"      "0.09"
>         Option  "MaxSpeed"      "0.6"
>         Option  "HorizEdgeScroll"       "true"
>         Option  "TapButton1"    "1"
>         Option  "SHMConfig"     "true"
> EndSection
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> seems to be applied not just to the Touchpad, but to many other
> devices. It looks as if since this is invalid for most of them,
> the touchpad driver is somehow partly disabled or
> misconfigured. At least many of the setting do not take effect: it
> looks as if it is basically behaving as a PS/2 mouse.
> 
Why don't you fix your config to apply just to the touchpad?

Cheers,
Julien