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Bug#629243: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Incorrect calibration with kernel 2.6.32



Salut Josselin,

Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> (04/06/2011):
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
> Version: 1.4.0-1+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Synaptics touchpad on my Packard Bell Dot-M/A laptop - here is
> the result of “xinput list”:
> 
> ⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
> ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
> ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
>     ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ Power Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ CNF9011                                 	id=10	[slave  keyboard (3)]
>     ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
> 
> It used to work out of the box with lenny and squeeze. However, when
> upgrading to the Xorg version in wheezy while keeping the squeeze
> kernel, the driver gets calibration wrong - and I mean really wrong: 25%
> of the surface gives a right-click, it is way too sensitive in the X
> direction and not enough in Y. Overall it is completely unusable.
> 
> When booting with the 2.6.39 kernel, it works just fine. You can see the
> detected calibration settings are different.
> 
> (Note: I’m using a self-compiled kernel, but it’s the stock Debian
> kernel rebuilt with a completely unrelated change.)
> 
> Julien suggested on IRC that some protocol between the kernel and the
> driver changed inbetween, but that would definitely go against both
> Debian and upstream policies.

any chance we could get a status update with synaptics 1.6.0 and X 1.12
from unstable? Maybe you'll need them to reach testing first?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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