Description of problem: A recent update (using yum) changed my touchpad settings. I had set the touchpad to not click via the pad. The update turned that setting back on. Please don't mess with my settings with your updates! It is hard enough to configure linix without having to recover from settings changed by updates. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Dunno, since it happened during and update Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Could you provide more data - how did you disable the touchpad? Please attach the output of rpm --last -qa so I can try and figure what may have done this. If you use yum please also attach /var/log/yum.log. Have you used any configuration tools - such as system-config-display to set things up since you disabled the touchpad. Please attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf along with an ls -al /etc/X11 so I can at least try and figure out when your xorg.conf may have changed. I can't think of anything that an update without some additional steps (eg system-config-display --reconfig) would prevent.
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The problem seems to be the new kernel in the update (2.6.9-1.6_FC2). I think I actually didn't have to do anything to disable the tapping feature of the touchpad with FC2. I used tpconfig to disable the feature in RH9. It may be that the new 2.6 kernel support for the feature was not present or enabled by default. So this update may be a "fix". Only now, as far as I am concerned, it is broken. I have tried using tpconfig again, but it does not work. Even if I boot in single user mode tpconfig just gives me an error that it can't open the ps2 aux port. Anyway, I tried the pre-update kernel (2.6.8-1.521), and tapping is still disabled when I boot using that kernel. Is there a way to disable the feature in the new kernel?
You can play with the various psmouse.proto settings. Can you attach your xorg.conf as requested, along with /var/log/boot.log
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Sorry one last file - can you attach /var/log/dmesg from booting with the updated kernel. Also can you try booting with: psmouse.proto=imps and see if that makes any difference.
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From what I can tell, the psmouse.proto=imps just selects a protocol. It doesn't configure options about things like the tapping settings on a touchpad. I tried it; the behaviour is the same with or without it. It does not seem to help tpconfig access the touchpad. (Is that what we were trying to accomplish? I'm still pretty hazy about where the settings are supposed to be located or twiddled.)
IIRC we don't ship tpconfig, plus it's deprecated in favour of the synaptics driver which we do ship in Fedora Core 3. It looks as if the default kernel setup for tap click has changed. Changing the protocol disables extensions so with psmouse.proto=imps you won't get raw events for synaptics driver, but that's not what you are seeing. Dave has anything in the input layer changed between: 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 2.6.8-1.521 That would affect this.
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