Rawhide - first experience

[Kjartan Maraas]

on., 23.06.2010 kl. 11.07 -0700, skrev Adam Williamson:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 13:15 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > ti., 22.06.2010 kl. 07.40 -0700, skrev Adam Williamson:
> > > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 16:08 +0200, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > 
> > > > I updated from F13 to rawhide today and everything went smooth when I
> > > > skipped packages with broken deps. Ended up with some 1500 packages
> > > > being updated :-)
> > > > 
> > > > When I booted and logged in I noticed the following:
> > > > 
> > > > - mouse movement is really slow. The pointer moves a centimeter or two
> > > > every time I drag my finger across the mousepad. Tried changing the
> > > > settings, but nothing seems to help there. Not kernel related as it is
> > > > the same when I boot the f13 kernel
> > > 
> > > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-synaptics-acceleration-mechanism.html
> > > 
> > 
> > I missed this yesterday. Thanks for the explanation, but I've given
> > myself some time to adjust to the new behavior now and I can safely say
> > that it's not working as it is now at least. I have to drag my finger
> > across the mousepad 15-20 times to move the pointer across the screen
> > from one side to the other.
> 
> Well I haven't experienced this directly (haven't updated anything to
> Rawhide, yet) but it doesn't sound like the intended behaviour - I read
> it as the movement should be slower, but not unreasonably so. It may be
> worth checking in with Peter to see if something's out of whack, here.

I understood it like this would be fixed when the relevant Xorg server
bits land in rawhide. I've reverted to the old driver now and everything
works like it did. Thanks again.

Cheers
Kjartan