Description of problem: When you suspend a laptop (in this case, a IBM T42 thinkpad), upon resume the Synaptics touchpad no longer responds to tap clicking. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): synaptics-0.14.6-7.fc9.src.rpm xorg-x11-server-1.4.99.901-21.20080407.fc9.src.rpm kernel-2.6.25-0.218.rc8.git7.fc9.src.rpm How reproducible: Always reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. Hibernate to disk 2. Thaw from disk 3. Enter password , check touchpad tap clicking, doesn't work Actual results: Synaptics touchpad does not respond to tapping commands (tap click) Expected results: Synaptics touchpad should respond to tap clicking.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 437609 ***
(In reply to #bug 437702 comment #1) > OK, looks like this one was intentional: > > * Mon Mar 10 2008 Adam Jackson <ajax> 0.14.6-4 > - synaptics-0.14.6-tap-to-click.patch: Disable tap to click by default in > the name of accessibility. > > I'm not sure this is really a good idea, since this is unexpected behaviour, > both by upstream documentation as well as shipped documentation (e.g. the patch > would have had to patch the man pages for example as well). > > Instead it could be something that the gdm login screen could be turning on/off > along with all the other accessibility items. Also if you really want the > default to change then do it in teh created xorg.conf, not hardwired in the > sources where no one will be seraching for this change in behaviour. If F9 ships > out that way you will get lots of duplicates to this bug report. OK, so we have 5 reports out of a total of 56 reports of all synaptics bug reports ever filed. Not the bug raining day, but still a very unpleasant experience with F9 and tapping. Fixing it is easy, here is the patch --- synaptics.spec~ 2008-03-28 20:28:10.000000000 +0100 +++ synaptics.spec 2008-04-10 19:45:27.000000000 +0200 @@ -4,3 +4,3 @@ Version: 0.14.6 -Release: 7%{?dist} +Release: 8%{?dist} Summary: Synaptics Touchpad Driver @@ -14,3 +14,2 @@ Patch1: synaptics-0.14.6-newx.patch -Patch2: synaptics-0.14.6-tap-to-click.patch Patch3: synaptics-0.14.6-poll-delay.patch @@ -55,3 +54,2 @@ %endif -%patch2 -p1 -b .tap %patch3 -p1 -b .polldelay @@ -89,2 +87,5 @@ %changelog +* Thu Apr 10 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm> - 0.14.6-8 +- Reenable tap to click. + * Fri Mar 28 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter> 0.14.6-7 And for the ones too lazy to rebuild I've placed the fixed synaptics package in ATrpms' testing area or you can get it directly from http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/ Bought my sanity back.