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Bug 1122130

Summary:	Improve Responsiveness on Touchpads for Lenovo T440s/T540p/etc.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Jan Kurik <jkurik>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-synaptics	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	7.1	CC:	btissoir, djasa, gcase, jherrman, mikem, peter.hutterer, pm-eus, rhaggard, tpelka, vbenes
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.1-10.el7_0.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Updated Synaptics drivers have been implemented which introduce software-emulated button click areas for clickpads on Lenovo 40 hardware. This provides for a smoother user experience while using the Lenovo 40 clickpads. This enhancement requires the kernel-3.10.0-140.el7 version or later to function properly.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	1093050	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-07-29 22:15:54 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1093050, 1122559
Bug Blocks:

Description Jan Kurik 2014-07-22 15:28:35 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #1093050 and has been proposed
to be backported to 7.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2014-07-23 04:54:02 UTC

MODIFIED

xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.7.1-10.el7_0.1 is available in brew

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-29 22:15:54 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2014-0990.html

Comment 9 Mike McLean 2014-07-30 19:26:22 UTC

The errata text says "This enhancement requires the kernel-3.10.0-140.el7 version or later to function properly. (BZ#1122130)", but no such kernel seems to have landed yet. Is it a problem to run this build with the older kernel, or is it just that fixing this issue requires both?

Comment 10 Tomas Pelka 2014-07-30 19:40:38 UTC

(In reply to Mike McLean from comment #9)
> The errata text says "This enhancement requires the kernel-3.10.0-140.el7
> version or later to function properly. (BZ#1122130)", but no such kernel
> seems to have landed yet. Is it a problem to run this build with the older
> kernel, or is it just that fixing this issue requires both?

There are bits in kernel allowing userspace driver to work properly. Closest window for kernel update is 16.9.

Tom

Comment 11 Peter Hutterer 2014-08-05 06:34:25 UTC

(In reply to Mike McLean from comment #9)
> Is it a problem to run this build with the older
> kernel, or is it just that fixing this issue requires both?

autoconfiguration of the driver requires both components. Without the updated kernel, the synaptics driver simply won't do anything though a user can set up configuration files to get the new behaviour. This isn't recommended though as the new kernel also fixes some hardware reporting issues.

It is safe to run the updated synaptics driver on an older kernel.