Bug#653156: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: description in man-page brakes functionality of the driver

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 14:09:03 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

> The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf contained the line
> 
>  Option          "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> 
> After removing this line the synaptics driver worked again.
> My point is that in the man-page of synaptics the following text appears:
> 
>        Option "Protocol" "string"
>               Specifies which kernel driver will be used by this driver.  This
>               is  the  list of supported drivers and their default use scenar-
>               ios.
> 
>               auto-dev   automatic, default (recommend)
>               event      Linux 2.6 kernel events
>               psaux      raw device access (Linux 2.4)
>               psm        FreeBSD psm driver
> 
> Shouldn't this text be revised? And may be a warning about this behavior be
> added to the file changelog.Debian.gz?
> 
> Please fell free to contact me, if further information is needed.
> 
Can you test
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/commit/?id=0cd5a77c3a455e942929eb4d5412fa51630ed13f
and tell us if that fixes it for you?

Cheers,
Julien