Fedora 11 Update: xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.1.0-7.fc11
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Wed May 20 23:56:20 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5209
2009-05-19 23:56:13
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Name : xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
Product : Fedora 11
Version : 1.1.0
Release : 7.fc11
URL : http://www.x.org
Summary : Xorg X11 Synaptics touchpad input driver
Description :
This is the Synaptics touchpad driver for the X.Org X server. The following
touchpad models are supported:
* Synaptics
* appletouch (Post February 2005 and October 2005 Apple Aluminium Powerbooks)
* Elantech (EeePC)
* bcm5974 (Macbook Air (Jan 2008), Macbook Pro Penryn (Feb 2008), iPhone
(2007), iPod Touch (2008)
Note that support for appletouch, elantech and bcm5974 requires the respective
kernel module.
A touchpad by default operates in compatibility mode by emulating a standard
mouse. However, by using a dedicated driver, more advanced features of the
touchpad become available.
Features:
* Movement with adjustable, non-linear acceleration and speed.
* Button events through short touching of the touchpad ("tapping").
* Double-Button events through double short touching of the touchpad.
* Dragging through short touching and holding down the finger on the
touchpad.
* Middle and right button events on the upper and lower corner of the
touchpad.
* Vertical scrolling (button four and five events) through moving the
finger on the right side of the touchpad.
* The up/down button sends button four/five events.
* Horizontal scrolling (button six and seven events) through moving the
finger on the lower side of the touchpad.
* The multi-buttons send button four/five events, and six/seven events for
horizontal scrolling.
* Adjustable finger detection.
Multifinger taps: two finger for middle button and three finger for
right button events. (Needs hardware support. Not all models implement
this feature.)
* Run-time configuration using shared memory. This means you can change
parameter settings without restarting the X server.
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Update Information:
An incorrect return value may lead the driver to think a mouse device is a
touchpad.This in turn resulted in both the mouse and the touchpad being
unusable. Only triggered if a synaptics device is specified in the xorg.conf.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #499792 - xorg.conf confiuration section for synaptics no longer used with xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.1.0-5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499792
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update xorg-x11-drv-synaptics' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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