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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

  1. Bug #47971 (touchpad64)
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 47971

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BobNJ (bob-nj) wrote : Re: synaptics touch pad(laptop) clicks when i dont want it to

This is merely an 'me too' comment with yet another workaround suggestion, working for me.

My environment:
HP NX6325
Ubuntu 6.0.6 lts
Linux user-laptop 2.6.15-27-amd64-generic #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:50:50 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Symptoms, same as with original poster, touchpad started to misbehave after certain, yet unknown upgrade.

Workaround:
1. Downloaded Synaptics driver package from maintainer's site and recompiled. http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/files/

2. The recompile worked fine, but resulted in synaptics_drv.o while xorg server as it is running at my Ubuntu is requiring shared object, synaptics_drv.so

3. Hacked the driver package makefile, to force the xorg recognition, and built the .so driver. Here is my diff to original, quick and dirty, basically forcing the recognition of xorg.

user@user-laptop:~/Desktop/synaptics-0.14.6$ diff makefile.rs Makefile
29d28
< BUILD_MODULAR = y
33d31
< INSTALLED_X = /usr/X11R6
35d32
< INPUT_MODULE_DIR = /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input
40,41c37
< # SDKDIR = $(shell pkg-config xorg-server --variable=sdkdir)
< SDKDIR = /usr/include/xorg
---
> SDKDIR = $(shell pkg-config xorg-server --variable=sdkdir)
 user@user-laptop:~/Desktop/synaptics-0.14.6$

4. Copied .so driver over the original, misbehaving one. Restarted.

5. Writing this post, touchpad back to normal. :)

Conclusion: This is yet another workaround, and Ubuntu packagers should provide us with synaptics-0.14.6 XORG driver package, which apparently solved the problem, at least on my setup.

Tks,

Bob