[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#378136: ksynaptics: new version does not work with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

[Hendrik Sattler]

Package: ksynaptics
Version: 0.3.1-1
Severity: important

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Hi,

although there is a brand new version in testing, it cannot be convinced that the driver is there :-(
I have in my Xorg.log.0:
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.5 (1405)
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event1
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
(**) Option "SHMConfig" "true"
(**) Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
(**) Synaptics Touchpad: always reports core events

Note the version. There are several bugs:
1. It silently has all options disabled, effectively doing nothing. This should somehow be reflected by the icon shown.
2. By trying to configure ksynaptics (right click on the icon), it tells me that I have to set the Option "UseShm" to true. However, consulting the manpage, no such option exists and also has no effect. Instead, the error message is gone, after setting "ShmConfig" to true.
3. After getting past bug 2, the next one appears, telling me:
"No usable driver has been found!
Either your driver is not correctly installed or you are using a wrong version.
You need at least driver version 0.14.4!"
As you can see above, I have 0.14.5 installed and running which is definitely a later version than 0.14.4.

The issue might also be an outdated libsynaptics.

This makes ksynaptics unusable with current xorg synaptics driver.

HS

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-yavin
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages ksynaptics depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a                 4:3.5.3-1    core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.17-1     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2                   1.7-9        The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                       2.3.6-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1              2.3.2-7      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6                2.2.1-2      FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-5    GCC support library
ii  libice6                     1:1.0.0-3    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                    0.6.3-1      GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-13        The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  libpng12-0                  1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt                   3:3.3.6-2    Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                      1:1.0.0-4    X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-5      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsynaptics0               0.14.4d-1    library to access the synaptics to
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.0.0-7    X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                 1.1.5.2-5    X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                    1:1.0.0-4    X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                     2.1.8.2-8    FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                      1:1.0.0-5    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                1:1.0.1-4    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                  2:1.1.0.2-4  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.0.2-4  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                      1:1.0.0-5    X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptic 0.14.5-1     Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Or
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.3-11   compression library - runtime

ksynaptics recommends no packages.

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