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.
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.
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).