Bug 612580

Summary:	>=dev-libs/libinput-1.6.0 pointer acceleration too slow on laptops with HiDPI monitors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stijn Tintel <stijn+gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	x11
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99383
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stijn Tintel 2017-03-14 06:53:54 UTC

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413306
Unfortunately the bug report instructs to try a "scratch build" from Koji, but I didn't find a commit or patch, so I masked the newer versions and downgraded.

/etc/portage/package.mask/libinput:
>=dev-libs/libinput-1.5.0
>=x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.20.0

I'm not asking to keyword the newer versions again, as they do seem to fix "it is unusable for me" for many other cases, just keep the old versions around until this is fixed upstream.

This is what I currently have installed:
dev-libs/libinput-1.4.2
x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.19.0

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-15 03:27:43 UTC

Looks like the latest instructions are https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413306#c38 but I have no idea how to figure out what patch that contains...

Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-28 20:30:40 UTC

I asked on IRC, and whot told me that the code is available in https://github.com/whot/libinput/tree/wip/touchpad-scaling-udev

Can you please give it a try?