Bug 111547

Summary:	Prepare synaptics for upcoming xorg-x11-7: install to /usr/lib/xorg/modules
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sebastian Roeder <sebroeder>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gad.kadosh, hanno, sebastian
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	112004

Description Sebastian Roeder 2005-11-05 05:21:06 UTC

I installed the (package masked) xorg-x11-7.0.0_rc. Synaptics doesn't work 
with this new xorg cause the module path has changed to /usr/lib/xorg/modules 
instead of /usr/lib/modules.  
 
My temporary workaround is: ln 
-s /usr/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so 
 
It would be great if the synaptics ebuild could be slightly adjusted in the 
future to work with the upcoming xorg "out of the box". 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
 
Actual Results:  
X server >=7.0.0_rc1 doesn't start, complaining about missing module 
synaptics. 

Expected Results:  
X server should start and touchpad should work within X.

Comment 1 gad.kadosh 2005-11-19 01:30:38 UTC

Maybe synaptics should be moved to x11-drivers category

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-09 07:36:22 UTC

this seems to have been fixed sometime prior anyway. will look into moving to
x11-drivers though.

Comment 3 Hypnos 2006-03-24 13:40:33 UTC

The new path has been implemented in synaptics-0.14.4-r2, but not in synaptics-0.14.3.  Perhaps xorg-x11-7.0 could require the former as the minimum version.

Comment 4 Joshua Baergen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-03-26 12:02:56 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> The new path has been implemented in synaptics-0.14.4-r2, but not in
> synaptics-0.14.3.  Perhaps xorg-x11-7.0 could require the former as the minimum
> version.
> 

Good idea.  Done.