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 :).
Created attachment 186297 [details] ebuild for xf86-input-synaptics with debian/ubuntu patches/enhancements.
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.
I see. Thanks for the info. :)
(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.
Frankly, it a dupe of bug 236983 anyway.
<sarcasm> Yeah, its a dup of every other touchpad related bug? <\sarcasm>
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.
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 ***
Created attachment 193052 [details] ebuild for xf86-input-synaptics with ubuntu (jaunty) patches.
