[bugweek] Synaptics testing

[Paul Nasrat]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 10:48 -0400, Joel Rittvo wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 14:21 +0100, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 15:20 +0200, D. Stolte wrote:

> 
> Background -- Dell Inspiron laptop with Synaptics touchpad.  Running
> current rawhide, but from updating off FC2.  Not a new install.  Not
> even an upgrade install.  Just doing up2date daily and accepting
> anything it presented.  I have been running with the v13.5 Synaptics
> driver for a while.

Is that the rawhide driver? rpm -q synaptics

> I just added the import line, and then ran system-config-display --
> reconfig.  Went out of X and then back.  My Synaptics touchpad has taps,
> scrolls, pointer acceleration and everything else it used to have with
> the Synaptics 13.5 driver module I had compiled from before. 

Indeed we now package and ship the synaptics driver from
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/

>  It is a
> little jumpy for my taste and it has the edges set in too close to the
> center, so dragging a window or highlighting a block of text starts into
> too much uncontrolled scrolling before I get things where I want them.

Yes, in the future I hope to get system-config-mouse to tune the
parameters.  I also need to look at wacom tablet support.

> But when I look at the new generated xorg.conf (see below), I see a Load
> "synaptics" entry in the Module list.  What synaptics is it loading?
> The one I installed?  Or is there one built in now? 

It's not built in it's an external module in the synaptics package, your
Xorg.0.log should show the module load paths.  If you don't have our
package installed you'll be loading your hand installed module.

>  If it is the one I
> installed, what happens to someone who has not installed this?

It's part of the Base distribution, so isn't an issue for a new install.
I'll need to test a fc2 -> fc3t3 upgrade too.  Worst case I can add a
requires in to system-config-display.

Paul