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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

  1. Bug #315882
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 315882

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Tomasz Dominikowski (dominikowski) wrote : Re: [Jaunty] synaptics driver needs to be updated to work with devices known as "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" starting with 2.6.28 series kernels

To make it work again, I had to install the package attached in the comments and edit my 11-x11-synaptics.fdi to look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.product" contains="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

The report only takes Elantech touchpads into consideration, but many laptops do have the good old Synaptics one. My MSI Wind U100 is from an early batch that still had the better, Synaptics one.

Now, if the bug needs to be fixed in such a way that all names of all touchpads need to be included in the *.fdi file, then I must say that it is a true clusterf*ck. Probably just including Elantech and Synaptics would fix most configs though.