Ubuntu
xfree86-driver-synaptics package

shmconfig breaks if new X server started

Bug #8878 reported by Jeff Waugh on 2004-10-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xfree86-driver-synaptics (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Daniel Stone	Ubuntu ubuntu-5.04

Bug Description

shmconfig access via synclient (used to configure the synaptics driver) breaks
if a new x server is started. No idea how viable it would be to fix this... :-)

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote on 2004-10-08:

The synaptic driver is shipped on its own. If it makes the server crashing it is not
xserver-xfree86 problem.

Someone will have to take care of this bug in my place since i don't own any
synaptic
device.

Fabio

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote on 2004-10-09:

<fabbione> daniels: 2153 is your ;)
<daniels> fabbione: yeah

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote on 2004-11-25:

OK, so it has some random #define'd constant as SHM_SYNAPTICS. If we use
SHM_SYNAPTICS + $DISPLAY major number, we should be sweet.

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Daniel Stone (daniels) wrote on 2004-12-13:

Unfortunately the display number (which we usually get from pScreen->scrnIndex)
isn't exposed to the input drivers at all, so there's no way to get a
predictable number we can use; I was hoping for SHM_SYNAPTICS (which we have
currently) plus the current display number, but we can't get that from the server.