[Debian-eeepc-devel] problem with synaptics driver in sid/unstable

[Shawn Lamson]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:55:17 -0400
Ben Armstrong <synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:21:52 -0500
> Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson at att.net> wrote:
> > Nothing "official", just taking what worked for me and putting it out
> > there.  
> 
> Good intentions, but you should really file this as a bug on
> xserver-xorg-video-intel and usertag it so we can track it (see
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Bugs/About ).  Then we can get the
> input of the Xorg maintainers and work towards an actual fix rather
> than promoting the use of workarounds such as you devised.

Hi Ben - to be honest I am not sure what the expected functionality was. There
was a bug filed against xserver-xorg-input-synaptics because it no longer
provided the .fdi file for HAL, it now provides the .rules file for udev
(in /lib/udev/rules.d ) with some non-eeepc specific "hacks" demonstrated.

Where does xserver-xorg-video-intel figure in, is it a meta-package? or was
this a typo?  Also - what should the request/bug be for - providing the sample
file we worked up here to enable at least basic functioinality by default on
any "synaptics" driven mouse/touchpad?

Sorry for the questions I am just not certain about these things.  If you can
respond and clarify then I will file a bug report.

Shawn

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Shawn Lamson
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