On Sun, 08 May 2016 23:08:18 +0200 Julian <
debian@styxxx.de> wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-libinput
> Followup-For: Bug #823286
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> Hello,
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> seems like this problem bothers a lot of people (if you google there are a lot of forum threads about this). Mostly because this change happened without notification and everyone's confused. There should've been a warning during the installation that the synaptics driver will be replaced and the configs won't work anymore. Or better: Import the existing configs. But doing it without is pretty annoying.
> Also no tool out there seems to recognize the new drivers so you can't create new setting. Maybe you could manually but also all manuals are outdated now and there is no valid information available (at least not the manuals I found, like the debian wiki). Seems like everyone got shot between the eyes.
> The most common approach I found is to uninstall the xserver-xorg-input packages. But that might have side effects. Also I don't think that was the intended reaction.
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.4
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
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> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-042stab113.21 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
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>
The big issue here is that the libinput driver is limited compared to evdev/synaptics, some features found in evdev are not available in it (i had constant decelaration set and working fine, but in libinput i saw no such option and couldnt set the pointer speed to the old value via xset). The touchpad was neuthered, the hardware buttons weren't even working at all.
Why adopt a new driver when it is inferior to the old one??