[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#436929: ksynaptics is not working with xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-0.14.7~git20070517-2

[Laurent Baum]

Package: ksynaptics
Version: 0.3.3-2
Severity: important

This problem occurs on Debian Testing.
The problem does not occur on two different Etch systems (Thinkpad T43 and a Desktop with an IBM UltraNav keyboard).
I have tested this extensively. With the driver xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-0.14.7~git20070517-2 ksynaptics starts one can open the config interface but changing settings has the effect that the mouse pointer starts 
acting weird. It jumps all over the display. A tap on the touchpad produces a right click. A left click produces a right click etc... And most settings specified in ksynpatics do not get applied. Don't get me wrong I 
have sane config values in ksynaptics which worked on other system and other versions (e.g. Etch, Kubuntu Feisty Fawn). Ditching these working settings and reconfiguring yields the same result. The only way I can work 
around this problem is by downgrading the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics driver to version 0.14.6-1 (from stable).  Using the latest synaptics driver with stable versions of ksynaptics and libsynaptics0 doesn't work 
either. This has been observed on a Thinkpad T43.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ksynaptics depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a             4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2               1.9-2+b1         The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6                   2.6-2            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.3-3        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11                0.6.5-1          GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62               6b-13            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-2   PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-6        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070712-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsynaptics0           0.14.6c-1        library to access the synaptics to
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.8-2        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                 2.1.12-2         FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.1-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.5-3        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xserver-xorg-input-syna 0.14.7~git20070517-2         Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Or
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime

ksynaptics recommends no packages.

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