Salut Josselin, Josselin Mouette <[email protected]> (04/06/2011): > Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics > Version: 1.4.0-1+b1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I have a Synaptics touchpad on my Packard Bell Dot-M/A laptop - here is > the result of “xinput list”: > > ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] > ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer > (2)] > ⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=12 [slave pointer > (2)] > ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] > ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ Power Button id=6 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ Power Button id=8 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ CNF9011 id=10 [slave > keyboard (3)] > ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=11 [slave > keyboard (3)] > > It used to work out of the box with lenny and squeeze. However, when > upgrading to the Xorg version in wheezy while keeping the squeeze > kernel, the driver gets calibration wrong - and I mean really wrong: 25% > of the surface gives a right-click, it is way too sensitive in the X > direction and not enough in Y. Overall it is completely unusable. > > When booting with the 2.6.39 kernel, it works just fine. You can see the > detected calibration settings are different. > > (Note: I’m using a self-compiled kernel, but it’s the stock Debian > kernel rebuilt with a completely unrelated change.) > > Julien suggested on IRC that some protocol between the kernel and the > driver changed inbetween, but that would definitely go against both > Debian and upstream policies.
any chance we could get a status update with synaptics 1.6.0 and X 1.12 from unstable? Maybe you'll need them to reach testing first? Mraw, KiBi.
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