Bug 20076

Summary:	synclient items change on their own.
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	w unruh <unruh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	x11-driver-input-synaptics-1.9.0-2.mga6?	CVE:
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Description w unruh 2017-01-05 15:35:19 CET

I have a number of special requriements I want to place on my touchpad. For example, setting the various botton click areas at the bottom of the trackpad, and the palm detection values. I will set them with synclient, see that they really have been set, and then a while later will discover that they not have different values. I have not done anything to change them.
For example, PalmMinZ will have jumped from 100 to 200 (the default) witheout my doing anything. Or MiddleButtonAreaLeft will have been changed from 400 to 0 (which eliminates the left button area completely). Not everything I changed has been changed (eg, the MiddleButtonAreaRight will not have changed). Ie, the system is just flakey.

Note that the SystemControl->Input->Trackpad does not allow me to alter some of these things at all. The pressure/sensitivity windows nothing works-- either greyed out or does not do anything when I try to change things. 

Also, entering my desired settings into .config/touchpad does not work at all. None of the changes I enter there get implimented at all on opening X.






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Marja Van Waes 2017-01-06 14:24:47 CET

CC: (none) => marja11, thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2017-01-06 23:49:46 CET

Are you using mga5 or mga6?
If the later, you can try removing the x11-driver-input-synaptics package, restart your system and see if it behaves better with the libinput driver which will handle the touchpad if synaptics is not installed.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 w unruh 2017-01-07 09:11:36 CET

cauldron (mga6). Of course now I cannot adjust anything since synclient does not exist. The SystemSetup->Input->touchpad options are even more restricted.It is thus hard to tell if configurations change. The PalmMinZ seems to be frozen at 200, not the 100 I want, and I cannot change it. I will try it for a while and see if some of the weirdnesses (Desktop and desktop icons stop responding to any clicks, pointer freezes as if one finger were  already on the touchpad), since both were "rare" events (hours rather than minutes).

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2017-01-07 14:52:21 CET

The libinput library & driver offer way less options than the synaptics driver (whose option matrix was too much complex to be realistically supported)

But it's supposed to behaves better by default (and to behave even better in next updates)

Comment 4 w unruh 2017-01-09 10:12:36 CET

It's been over 2 days of using libinput, and the symptoms have not reoccured (see bug 20021 as well) Of course this bug could not occcur with libinput since libinput does not support synclient, or support changing the options on the fly but it looks like libinput is the solution to both problems.

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2021-07-03 14:25:31 CEST

@ w unruh

Is this bug still valid for x11-driver-input-synaptics-1.9.1-3.mga8 in current cauldron (or Mageia 8)?

Comment 6 w unruh 2021-07-03 21:09:52 CEST

Unfortunately covid (or rather staying home because of covid) means that I do not use my laptop with the trackpad. I have updated it to Mga8, but not used it. The occasions where I have used it, the trackpad is weird, and I have to push the trackpad buttons, rather than tapping so that would suggest that the problems are still there. I will try to see in the next few days exactly what the situation is on Mga8.