Package Details: xf86-input-synaptics-palm-width-patch 1.8.1-1

Package Base: xf86-input-synaptics-palm-width-patch
Description: Synaptics driver for notebook touchpads
Upstream URL: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
Category: x11
Licenses: custom
Groups: xorg, xorg-drivers
Conflicts: synaptics
Provides: synaptics, xf86-input-synaptics
Replaces: synaptics
Submitter: Sky
Maintainer: Sky
Last Packager: Sky
Votes: 2
First Submitted: 2014-08-08 13:05
Last Updated: 2014-09-29 08:47

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Comment by MarcusMoeller

2015-08-03 07:21

I have recently switched to xf86-input-libinput and everything works fine.

Comment by Sky

2015-06-08 11:13

Hi Watney. I stopped using it when I upgraded to kernel 4.0 a few days ago. Fortunately there was some upstream work on this matter, but it's not yet released:

Have look here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77161#c14
and here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/commit/?id=a897147be04d74ed452cda166fd4e01f9615ff72

Comment by Watney

2015-06-07 22:08

@Sky are you still using this patched driver?

I tried to patch the current Synaptics 1.8.2-2 using silverhammermba's patch on GitHub (https://gist.github.com/silverhammermba/a231c8156ecaa63c86f1) but it left my trackpad unresponsive. Wish we could fix this bug in the kernel.

Comment by Sky

2014-09-16 11:40

Ok, thanks for the patch. I'm updating the package.

Comment by kas21

2014-09-16 11:07

I was able to fix the build error posted below by including this patch when compiling:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/commit/?id=96e60a4ea242d2decf109835981ae186cc36f642

Comment by kas21

2014-09-16 10:36

The build is failing with the following error:
/usr/include/xorg/os.h:579:1: error: expected identifier or '(' before '__extension__'
strndup(const char *str, size_t n);
^
Makefile:500: recipe for target 'synproto.lo' failed