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Bug 1227796 - No synaptics driver loaded
Summary: No synaptics driver loaded
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synaptics
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-03 14:03 UTC by Yaroslav
Modified: 2015-06-14 23:15 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libinput-0.17.0-2.fc22
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-04 01:51:56 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Yaroslav 2015-06-03 14:03:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
Some touchpad functionality cannot be modified and is not working properly. Synclient outputs "Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-synaptics - 1.8.2


How reproducible:
Always
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2015-06-03 23:31:51 UTC 
F22 uses the libinput driver as default touchpad driver (and for all other devices). see here for a detail what libinput is:

http://who-t.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/libinput-common-input-stack-for-wayland.html

the xorg libinput driver (xorg-x11-drv-libinput) wraps libinput and provides the X devices, but it doesn't provide the same properties that synaptics used to provide, hence the error from synclient (which is a synaptics-specific tool that looks at synaptics-specific properties only).

If the touchpad doesn't work as expected, please file a separate bug for each item that doesn't work so we can get them fixed. Thanks.
Comment 2 Yaroslav 2015-06-04 01:49:32 UTC 
Wow, very informative post. Thanks for the explanation. I'll open new issues for each problem I have.

Thanks!
Comment 3 Peter Hutterer 2015-06-04 01:51:56 UTC 
thanks. I'll close this one as NOTABUG and we'll handle the other bugs as they come in.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-06-08 23:33:28 UTC 
libinput-0.17.0-2.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libinput-0.17.0-2.fc22
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-06-13 06:38:54 UTC 
libinput-0.17.0-2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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