** Changed in: libevdev (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  FFE: new upstream version to support touchpads on newer Lenovo models

Status in “libevdev” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Upstream has released -synaptics 1.7.99.1:

  A snapshot of what will be synaptics 1.8. There are a couple of significant
  changes in here:

  libevdev support:
    The evdev backend on Linux now uses libevdev. We recommend to use libevdev
    1.1-rc1 or later as the synaptics driver is very likely to trigger
    SYN_DROPPED and we've fixed a bunch of issues in libevdev 1.1.

  Support for T440, T540, X240, Helix, Yoga:
    The bulk of the changes is to support this set of Lenovo touchpads. These
    touchpads don't have separate physical buttons for the trackstick and need
    to be emulated as software-button by the driver.

  TouchpadOff behaviour change:
    Synaptics has a property "Synaptics Off" to disable events. Previously,
    this disabled any event from the touchpad. Now, physical button clicks are
    allowed even when the touchpad is disabled.

  mtdev was dropped:
    There are no touchpad drivers in the kernel tree that use protocol A, so
    using mtdev is just a computationally expensiv and memory-wasting noop.

  this needs a newer libevdev too.

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