Bug 115108 – No scrolling on touchpad after updating to x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.4

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-10 10:24:21 UTC]

After updating from  x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.3 to  
x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.4, the horizontal & vertical scrolling via touchpad 
doesn't work  
anymore.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge synaptics 
Actual Results:  
see Details  

Expected Results:  
scrolling should work 

Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 
2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz 
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled] 
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2 
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.15 
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7 
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1 
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1 
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" 
LANG="de_DE.utf8" 
LC_ALL="en_US" 
LINGUAS="de" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 X a52 acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 
cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode 
esd exif expat fam fame ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gpm 
gstreamer gtk2 guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 irmc java jpeg junit kde 
kdepim kdexdeltas lcms libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif 
mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl 
png python qt quicktime readline recode samba scanner sdl speex spell sqlite 
sse ssl subtitles svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts 
type1-fonts udev unicode usb uselocales userlocales visualization vorbis xine 
xml2 xmms xv xvid zeroconf zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux 
elibc_glibc" 
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Ole Langbehn 2005-12-11 13:07:31 UTC]

saw this on my machine, too... 
synaptics module has some symbol problem, see Xorg.0.log. 
Can't provide more detail at the moment, sorry. 

[Comment 2 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-11 22:38:29 UTC]

Yes, this is what my Xorg.0.log is saying: 
 
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics" 
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics 
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics" 
(EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0) 
 
My touchpad is working, though (except the scrolling). 

[Comment 3 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-12-12 23:00:20 UTC]

Thomas, which version of Xorg are you using?

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-12-13 05:40:38 UTC]

Thomas: please respond to comment #3

[Comment 5 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-13 09:03:46 UTC]

I'm using the modular xorg-server 0.99.4-r2 

[Comment 6 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) 2005-12-13 09:24:22 UTC]

Please attach your xorg.conf and "equery f synaptics" (equery is from gentoolkit).

[Comment 7 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-13 13:12:33 UTC]

Created attachment 74662 [details]
My xcorg.conf

[Comment 8 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-13 13:13:20 UTC]

SchlesisNB thomas # equery f synaptics 
[ Searching for packages matching synaptics... ] 
* Contents of x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.4: 
/etc 
/etc/conf.d 
/etc/conf.d/syndaemon 
/etc/init.d 
/etc/init.d/syndaemon 
/usr 
/usr/bin 
/usr/bin/synclient 
/usr/bin/syndaemon 
/usr/lib 
/usr/lib/modules 
/usr/lib/modules/input 
/usr/lib/xorg 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input 
/usr/share 
/usr/share/doc 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/COMPATIBILITY.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/FILES.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/INSTALL.DE.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/INSTALL.FR.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/INSTALL.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/LICENSE.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/NEWS.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/README.alps.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/README.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/TODO.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/alps.patch.gz 
/usr/share/doc/synaptics-0.14.4/usbmouse.gz 
/usr/share/man 
/usr/share/man/man1 
/usr/share/man/man1/synclient.1.gz 
/usr/share/man/man1/syndaemon.1.gz 
/usr/share/man/man5 
/usr/share/man/man5/synaptics.5.gz 
 

[Comment 9 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-12-15 13:32:53 UTC]

please test 0.14.4-r1 of synaptics

[Comment 10 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-15 21:34:52 UTC]

Same problem with 0.14.4-r1: 
 
[..] 
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics" 
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module synaptics 
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics" 
(EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0) 
[..] 

[Comment 11 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-12-16 12:26:56 UTC]

thomas -- please emerge sync right now (for a recent fix to the ebuild) and attach the logfile called synaptics.log when you do this:

emerge synaptics &>synaptics.log

[Comment 12 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-16 12:44:06 UTC]

Created attachment 74894 [details]
emerge synaptics logfile

[Comment 13 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-16 12:46:37 UTC]

Seemant,

I've done the emerge sync and emerged the synaptics. The problem didn't disappear.

[Comment 14 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2005-12-16 17:31:12 UTC]

thomas, one more test with -r2 please?

[Comment 15 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-17 01:56:56 UTC]

Seemant,

the -r2 does the job, great! Thank you very much!

[Comment 16 Thomas Schlesinger 2005-12-19 07:32:38 UTC]

Closing