[arch-general] Some synaptics multitouch functionality lost on upgrade

[Scott Lawrence]

For the record: 'twas a bug in the driver, which the latest update fixed. 
ClickPad must also be set to "1".

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Scott Lawrence wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Jesse Juhani Jaara wrote:
>
>> to, 2012-03-15 kello 15:44 -0400, Scott Lawrence kirjoitti:
>>> (There's no separate physical button.) How is that different from what you
>>> describe?
>> Is your trackpad like this? With or without those lines.
>> http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/hppavilionhands-on05.jpg
>
> Yup, albeit on a mac.
>
>> Do you have xf86-input-synaptics-clickpad intalled?
>
> No, I was using xf86-input-synaptics. Using -clickpad made no difference in 
> behaviour.
>
>> 
>>> (Sorry if I'm being particularly dense. Maybe I should just build an
>>> old version from source.)
>> If you are using the ..-clickpad pkg you can get old version from the 
>> general
>> AUR git clone. Or from my own git of my PKGBUILDS
>> https://gitorious.org/huulivoide-aur
>
> Hmmm. Thanks for the pointer.
>
> This functionality isn't so bad (apparently, I almost never use right click 
> anyway) - I think I'll just live with it until I have time to dive into the 
> source to change the behaviour to what I want (possibly submitting a patch to 
> make it configurable).
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
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> Scott Lawrence
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