Description of problem: Disabling of Touchpad in Applications > Pointing Devices does not stick through a reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gpointing-device-settings-1.5.1-3.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Disable TouchPad in Applications > Pointing Devices and TouchPad is disabled. Reboot and TouchPad is no longer disabled although the box is still checked for it to be disabled in Pointing Devices. Have to enable it in Pointing Devices, then disable it in Pointing Devices for it to again be disabled. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable TouchPad in Pointing Devices 2. Reboot 3. TouchPad no longer disabled although it is still checked as being disabled in Pointing Devices. Actual results: Disabling of TouchPad does not stick through a reboot. Expected results: Once TouchPad is disabled in Pointing Devices, I expect it to remain disabled until I choose otherwise. Additional info: This is an old bug that is still not resolved. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528485
I should have stated this is on a ThinkPad X220 with both the TrackPoint and TouchPad onboard (UltraNav). [david@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep IBM [ 8.463267] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3 [ 8.715844] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input6 [david@localhost ~]$ dmesg | grep Synaptics [ 1.824376] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 8.0, id: 0x1e2b1, caps: 0xd001a3/0x940300/0x120c00 [ 1.824383] serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0 [ 1.876853] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input4 [david@localhost ~]$
I did not think that the scrolling feature was working with my TrackPoint, but I discovered that it does if I choose the correct button (#2). However this feature likewise does not stick through a reboot. Everytime I reboot I have to open gpointing-device-settings at least 6 times! First to uncheck "Disable touchpad", Second to recheck "Disable touchpad", Third to change wheel button from 2 to 4, Fourth to change wheel button from 4 to 2, Fifth to uncheck "Use wheel emulation", Sixth to recheck "Use wheel emulation". No such problems in Mageia 1 KDE.
David I have a Thinkpad T520 also with UltrNav and the same touchpad and trackpoint as you (I think). cat /proc/bus/input/devices shows: - SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad - TPPS/2 IBM Trackpoint and dmesg shows the same as you mention above. I have added myself to bug 710053 with regard to the gpointing-device-settings package failure to save settings. My question to you is did the touchpad work 'out of the box' (after installing F15) or did you have to add some xorg config. With the T520 the trackpoint works (minus 'wheel' function) but the touchpad does not work at all.
My touchpad worked out of the box in F15, but since I don't use it, I am not sure if all the available functions were there. I know that it did move the mouse pointer. I did not initially create an xorg.conf, but did later to use libva for Intel graphics acceleration. I have a copy of my xorg.conf in the following post: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1508321&postcount=4 Here is my current workaround for this bug. Looks like no one is interested in fixing it. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=267052
This bug is still present in Fedora 17: gpointing-device-settings-1.5.1-7.fc17.x86_64
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See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713534#c5, this bug report is still valid.
Still present, related to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710053