Bug 214083 - Synaptics Touchpad Driver not usable on Apple Ibook G4
Summary: Synaptics Touchpad Driver not usable on Apple Ibook G4
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synaptics
Version: 6
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
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Reported: 2006-11-05 16:14 UTC by Klaus-Peter Schrage
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-11-23 18:31:32 UTC
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Description Klaus-Peter Schrage 2006-11-05 16:14:34 UTC
Description of problem:
Fresh install of FC6 on an ibook.
Whichever movement I make with my fingertip on the touchpad, the cursor drifts
away to the upper left corner of the screen just to remain there.
If I deactivate the synaptics driver in xorg.conf, touchpad is working, but is
rather "fidgety", that's why I installed the driver which used to work properly
in FC5.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
synaptics-0.14.4-8.fc6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FC6 on ibook G4
2. Install synaptics driver
3. Activate synaptics driver in xorg.conf
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Here is the relevant part of my xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics"
        Driver "synaptics"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option        "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
        Option        "LeftEdge"      "1700"
        Option        "RightEdge"     "5300"
        Option        "TopEdge"       "1700"
        Option        "BottomEdge"    "4200"
        Option        "FingerLow"     "25"
        Option        "FingerHigh"    "30"
        Option        "MaxTapTime"    "180"
        Option        "MaxTapMove"    "220"
        Option        "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option        "MinSpeed"      "0.09"
        Option        "MaxSpeed"      "0.18"
        Option        "AccelFactor"   "0.0015"
        Option  "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
        Option  "SHMConfig" "true"
        Option  "UseShm" "true"
EndSection

But even if I leave out all the "geometric" options (LeftEdge, ...,
AccelFactor), the behaviour is the same.

Comment 1 Klaus-Peter Schrage 2006-11-10 17:56:13 UTC
Meanwhile I have downloaded the source tarball of the synaptics driver (version
0.14.6) from
http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html

After compiling it, installing it, and restarting X all my touchpad troubles
seem to be gone, and the driver behaves as expected.
So a simple fix of this bugs should be putting the recent version of the
synaptics driver into the repository, as suggested in bug #212834.

Comment 2 Klaus-Peter Schrage 2006-11-15 18:19:21 UTC
Sorry for the false alarm - the lack of usability seems to come from the above
mentioned default settings in xorg.conf. The driver works on my ibook with these
ones:
        Option        "LeftEdge"      "20"
        Option        "RightEdge"     "960"
        Option        "TopEdge"       "20"
        Option        "BottomEdge"    "337"

I was confused by the supposedly buggy behaviour of ksynaptics (see bug #215775).


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