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Subject: Re: thinkpad button/touchpad problem with recent X releases
From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer () who-t ! net>
Date: 2010-12-23 1:01:56
Message-ID: m3wrn147zv.fsf () who-t ! net
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:20:21 +1100, Dave Davey <daved@windclimber.id.au> wrote:
> I have a thinkpad R61 with 5 mouse buttons, a touchpad and a red button
> joystick in the middle of the keyboard. The buttons are arranged like this:
> 1 2 3
> pad
> 4 5
>
> I use this machine with openSuSE 11.2 (and 11.1) before that, and the
> buttons and touchpad work as I would expect. (Button 4 equivalent to button
> 1; 5 eq to 3; 4+5 eq 2).
>
> With openSuSE 11.3 (and with Fedora 14 and Ubuntu 10.10) I have the following
> problem:
> Press and hold any of buttons 1, 2, 3
> Move the pointer with the touchpad (even the smallest possible amount)
> A buttonrelease event occurs
>
> This makes many normal operations impossible, e.g. making a choice from an
> xterm menu with Ctrl+button[1|2|3].
>
> The same buttonrelease does not occur with buttons 4 or 5. It does not
> happen at all with pointer motion induced with the joystick.
> I also note that touchpad tapping does not simulate button 1 pushing.
>
> I have compiled and installed the synaptics_drv module from
> xf86-input-synaptics-1.2.0 and it does not change the abovementioned behaviour
> back to that I see with earlier systems. I have also tried
> xf86-input-synaptics-1.3.0, and see no change.
>
> What else can I try?
the button release event would be a server bug since the touchpad and
the joystick thingy are two different devices to the server. I just
tried this use-case with current git master and it works fine, so
there may be a bug with server 1.9. Can you try to reproduce with
current git?
Cheers,
Peter
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