Package: xfree86-driver-synaptics Severity: important I recently tried Debian/etch on my laptop and using the default configuration provided by Debian the touchpad can't be used as the mouse moves maybe 30 pixels when my finger goes from one side of the touchpad to the other side.
I tried Ubuntu breezy and there I haven't the problem. I looked what was causing the problem ... and it's this package. And indeed when I tried on Debian with the Ubuntu package, which has been renamed xorg-driver-synpatics in breezy and then xserver-xorg-input-synaptics in dapper (could you rename the Debian package too ? it makes sense since when I look for X related stuff, I expect now an xorg prefix), it works fine ... The ubuntu package is an older version in breezy : 0.13.6 http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/x11/xorg-driver-synaptics http://packages.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/x/xorg-driver-synaptics/xorg-driver-synaptics_0.14.3+revertedto+0.13.6-0ubuntu3/changelog As you can see from the changelog, they had numerous problems with the 0.14.x version and they decided to revert to the previous version. Now in dapper they came back to 0.14.3 (but I haven't tried the dapper version), maybe they have a fix in that version ? http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/x11/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics I'd be glad if you could coordinate with the respective Ubuntu maintainers and check if they have a fix: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mainly (up to now). Please tell me what information I should provide you so that we can fix the stuff definitely. My laptop is a Dell latitude D410. The xorg.conf mentions this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0" EndSection More information about the touchpad extracted from /proc/bus/input/devices I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0008 Version=6337 N: Name="AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 H: Handlers=mouse1 event2 ts1 B: EV=f B: KEY=420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: REL=3 B: ABS=1000003 I can configure the touchpad to a more sensible speed with the parameters described in "man synaptics" but it should definitely work out of the box. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
