Subject: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: doesn't load options from xorg.conf
Package: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
Version: 0.14.5-1
Severity: important
Hello Xperts, ;)
I am not sure why this happens, but my synaptics setting do not get
loaded every time I start X. I have the following synaptics
configuration section in xorg.conf.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
Option "RightEdge" "5980"
EndSection
Here is output from "synclient -l | grep RightEdge" immediately after
logging into a failsafe session:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ synclient -l | grep RightEdge
RightEdge = 5300
This should be set to 5980 as per my xorg.conf configuration. Okay, if I
now do "synclient RightEdge=5980" to override the default, the previous
command returns the right thing and the edge scrolling works.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ synclient RightEdge=5980
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ synclient -l | grep RightEdge
RightEdge = 5980
Okay, so now I logout of X, and it restarts coming back to my display
manager. I then login to a failsafe session. The "synclient -l | grep
RightEdge" command now returns the correct thing, but the edge scrolling
does not work for some time. After that the edge scrolling starts
working. The time ranges from very low (15-30 seconds) to much longer
(multiple minutes). However, sometimes the edge scrolling does not start
working at all.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ synclient -l | grep RightEdge
RightEdge = 5980
If I turn off the SHMConfig option in the xorg.conf and restart X, the
same behavior is exhibited except that, of course, I cannot run use the
synclient command.
I have also found that the RightEdge is not the only setting affected by
this problem. I also tried with the PressureMotionMaxFactor option, and
it seems to react the same way.
The funny thing is that sometimes the settings get set, and sometimes
they don't. Sometimes there is a stall before the edge scrolling works
and sometimes there is not. I don't really know what is causing the
problem, but I hope this helps to track down the problem.
wt
-- 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 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-synaptics depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension
librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii xserver-xorg-core 1:1.0.2-8 X.Org X server -- core server
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics recommends no packages.
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