Bug 263830 – x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics: Enhancing driver package with Debian/Ubuntu patches

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description hirakendu 2009-03-26 06:36:02 UTC]

It is generally observed that the notebook touchpad works 'better' and 'out-of-box' in Ubuntu. Sure some tweaking can be done in xorg.conf or with hal scripts, but it seems that the Deb/Ubu patches do something *more* than that. Notably, on my Asus G50VT-X6 notebook I recently purchased, even the old synaptics 0.15 driver in Ubuntu 8.10 worked flawlessly, with a blank xorg.conf, but I couldn't make it work (tapping, scrolling etc) with 1.0.0 driver in Gentoo, that too after quite some playing around with xorg.conf. Desperate, I tried using the Ubuntu patches with Gentoo and voila, it worked :).

So it would be nice if these patches are added to the xf86-input-synaptics ebuild. As a crude example, I have created a modified ebuild. Please see the attachments.

More info and references:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xfree86-driver-synaptics/xfree86-driver-synaptics_0.99.3-2ubuntu3.diff.gz
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-742094.html


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge xf86-input-synaptics on a notebook and use the touchpad.

Actual Results:  
minor issues with touchpad functionality - scrolling, tapping and cursor speed.

Expected Results:  
out-of-box nirvana :).

[Comment 1 hirakendu 2009-03-26 06:37:38 UTC]

Created attachment 186297 [details]
ebuild for xf86-input-synaptics with debian/ubuntu patches/enhancements.

[Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2009-03-26 14:51:34 UTC]

As far as I can tell, most of these patches
are covered by following post:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044223.html
so, IMHO, this is invalid.

[Comment 3 hirakendu 2009-03-26 17:13:55 UTC]

I see. Thanks for the info. :)

[Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-03-26 21:49:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> As far as I can tell, most of these patches
> are covered by following post:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2009-March/044223.html
> so, IMHO, this is invalid.

Let's see what maintainers think about this.

[Comment 5 Rafał Mużyło 2009-03-27 02:47:08 UTC]

Frankly, it a dupe of bug 236983 anyway.

[Comment 6 hirakendu 2009-03-27 05:22:28 UTC]

<sarcasm> Yeah, its a dup of every other touchpad related bug? <\sarcasm>

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2009-03-30 10:53:21 UTC]

I already check every included patch:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236983#c26

I think this is invalid in its current form, a bug for each remaining issue should be opened (for tapping there is already bug 236983) and contact with upstream would be highly appreciated.

[Comment 8 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-03-30 11:50:19 UTC]

If you can make a single FDI file that loads the new driver with the old defaults, I'll ship it in /usr/share/doc

Let's continue the discussion in the other bug.

Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 236983 ***

[Comment 9 hirakendu 2009-05-31 11:17:26 UTC]

Created attachment 193052 [details]
ebuild for xf86-input-synaptics with ubuntu (jaunty) patches.