Bug 291698 – xf86-input-synaptics-1.1.3: synclient TouchpadOff=1 does not work, 1.2.0 works

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Phillip Merensky 2009-11-03 13:16:19 UTC]

"synclient TouchpadOff=1" does not disable my touchpad with version 1.1.3 whereas version 1.2.0 works completely.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. synclient TouchpadOff=1 with version 1.1.3

Actual Results:  
touchpad is activated

Expected Results:  
touchpad is deactivated

Version 1.2.0 works flawlessly -> stable request.

Thinkpad T400

emerge --info:

Portage 2.2_rc46 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                                   
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CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                                   
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[Comment 1 Phillip Merensky 2009-11-03 13:18:43 UTC]

I moved this to componenet ebuilds, because version 1.2.0 works flawlessly but is marked unstable until now.

Regards,
Phillip

[Comment 2 Rafał Mużyło 2009-11-03 14:11:29 UTC]

I suspect it's not really a bug -
1.1 series used device properties, unless SHM was requested,
1.2 uses device properties only.
Something probably creates a conflict with your settings.

IIRC, device properties were introduced in 1.6 xorg-server.

[Comment 3 Phillip Merensky 2009-11-03 15:02:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I suspect it's not really a bug -
> 1.1 series used device properties, unless SHM was requested,
> 1.2 uses device properties only.
> Something probably creates a conflict with your settings.
> 
> IIRC, device properties were introduced in 1.6 xorg-server.
> 
My 1.2.0 manpage for synaptics says:

Option "SHMConfig" "boolean"
              Switch  on/off  shared  memory for run-time configuration. Note that this is considered a security risk since any user can access the configuration. This option is not
              needed with synaptics 1.0 or later. See section Device Properties.


A "xinput set-int-prop "Synaptics" "Synaptics Off" 8 1" does the job also for 1.1. I wonder why they removed the synclient functionality and readded it in 1.2  Anyway...

Changing to  "worksforme"
Sorry for any inconveniences and thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Regards,
Phillip