Bug 809558
| Summary: | touchpad pointer movement nearly unusable | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller> |
| Component: | synaptics | Assignee: | Orphan Owner <extras-orphan> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | extras-orphan |
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| Last Closed: | 2012-04-04 08:35:26 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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fixed in xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.99.901-2 |
Description of problem: With the latest synaptics package, it is now very difficult to do small movements (e.g. for clicking a small icon or link), because the pointer keeps on moving while the finger rests on the touchpad. This is shows in synclient: $ synclient ... CoastingSpeed = 0 CoastingFriction = 50 PressureMotionMinZ = format mismatch (32) PressureMotionMaxZ = format mismatch (32) PressureMotionMinFactor = 0 PressureMotionMaxFactor = 0 ... Notice the error with the PressureMotion settings. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.99-7.20120207git141d9120b Apparently a new type of properties was introduced, called cardinals. These do not (yet) seem to be supported by synclient and xinput. See this patch proposed in June: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-June/023284.html or in git: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/diff/?id2=6269fdaf3283ba4a8051858fc2b43fa102823e96 and http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/commit/?id=a24c44375025576dd600ccf370ba365e5d94dc22 Which would explain the error I see in xinput: Synaptics Pressure Motion (292): ... of unknown type CARDINAL which may just be the meaning of "32" in synclient: PressureMotionMinZ = format mismatch (32) I'm not an expert on X11, but XA_CARDINAL seems to be an integer, so it should be fairly easy to add support. Or to revert back to "integer" as a hotfix.