ksynaptics not working in dapper/breezy

Confirmed here: running kcontrol from the command-line and attempting to edit and Apply e.g. a change to the Tapping->Fingers->Tapping->Right Top entry yields the following debug output:

kcontrol: load()
kcontrol: 0
kcontrol: save()
kcontrol: ERROR: Access denied to driver shared memory

Thank you for your bug report. Could you please test with an up-to-date Dapper?

Sure - this is the output with a fully up-to-date Kubuntu Dapper when attempting to change the "tapping" mapping for the top-right of the pad:

simon@simonlaptop:$ kcontrol
simon@simonlaptop:$ kcontrol: load()
kcontrol: 0
kcontrol: tapFingerChanged
kcontrol: save()
kcontrol: here?
kcontrol: switch docking on
kcontrol: ..done!
kcontrol: ERROR: Shared memory segment size mismatch
syndock: launched syndaemon process
Disable

The settings seem to be "remembered" next time I visit kcontrol, but they don't actually seem to have had any effect in that tapping the top-right of the pad does not trigger the desired mouse button press.

Add the inability to disable/reenable the touchpad using CTRL-ALT-P in Dapper Flight 6, 5, 4 & 3.

Hi there,

I still have to upgrade in Debian to the latest k/qsynaptics (0.3.1).
The problem (which is also a solution) is that there is now a wrapper library (libsynaptics, need an ITP) to access the driver, and avoid the kind of shared mem access problem due to version problems...
I'm in the process of doing this upgrade, but as I don't own anymore this hardware, and as I'm working on a big package (Jahshaka), this has been low prio. for long.

It's a shame that this has fallen by the wayside. Lots of laptop users would like to be able to customize their primary pointing device.

I can confirm that this is an issue still in the latest Dapper with the latest ksynaptics package and synaptics driver. It appears that the problem is that ksynaptics requires a later driver than ubuntu provides and therefore cannot actually control the touchpad. I would love to have this working as I would love to have a way to turn off the touchpad on my laptop so I don't continually hit it while typing.

The bug this is a duplicate of is not assigned to anyone.

Sorry for the extra spam re: duplicates. The bug I marked this as a duplicate of should have been marked as a duplicate of this one (this one is older).

I've updated the ubuntu package in edgy - can someone check this, and tell me if it's fixed?

will sync/merge the new version of libsynaptics and ksynaptics when they are released, which should fix this bug.

Running Dapper; any way I can confirm for you from there?

hello,
the problem here can be fixed under ubuntu and xubuntu by changing driver from xorg to xfree86, but kubuntu fails to work if you install xfree86 synaptics driver. i wrote to the husband of my sister, who wrote the xorg synaptics driver so, maybe he can come up with a solution. If you install the xfree86 driver, the package manager will disinstall the kubuntu-desktop package. My laptop works fine also without the kubuntu manager, except if you try to log out from a session the screen becomes black and i have to restart the laptop.

Iibsynaptics has been synced in edgy.

As far as I know, backports are broken (still?)

ksynaptic claims it requires "synaptics driver version 0.14.4", however dapper only has xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.3

Any chance of having this resolved? I hate not being able to disable my touchpad (on a dell inspiron 9400) :)

Thanks

any chance to get this working in dapper?

Its a functionality I am missing badly, and it was used to work great with breezy. I think a lot of notebook users feel the same. Dapper is broken when it comes to synaptic touchpads ... I would assume that this is a serious issue. if dapper is supported for next years.. does this include bugfixes like this one?

-> This bug is open since 10/20/2005, dapper was not even released..

> -> This bug is open since 10/20/2005, dapper was not even released..

Regardless, this is still broken in dapper. Ksynaptics installs, runs, and
does absolutely nothing.

Issue now resolved? Works for me.

Still not working for me; you using Dapper LTS?

Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 I believe. Is that LTS? :)

It works 90% for me, the only problem is no matter which mouse button I select in the 'tapping' config it always gives middle mouse button.

There was a kernel update recently that might have caused it. I also recently installed ubuntu-desktop which is another possibility.

Perhaps this is a case of broken dependencies?

xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.3+serious
ksynaptics 0.2.4-2ubuntu2

This is also affecting Feisty. I'm getting it here (Dell Latitude D600), and so are others. See bug 70525 and http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=168581 (that one's really detailed on trying exactly what the software asks you to do).

This one's a nuisance without a workaround, and very n00b-hostile (the application leads the user down the garden path as far as the supposed workaround).

Apparently it's patched in Debian. Will the patch filter down any time soon?

Running 7.04 (Feisty) on a Thinkpad T43.

Just put

Load "synaptics"

in the Section "Module" and

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

in the Section "InputDevice with the synaptics driver. It works like a charm here.

FYI, here's my entire InputDevice Section:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
        Option "Protocol" "evdev"
        Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Thank you for posting this bug.

Feisty is in End of Life status. Please update and repost detailed error report.

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