-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-13063 2009-12-11 16:37:44 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : xorg-x11-drv-synaptics Product : Fedora 11 Version : 1.1.3 Release : 2.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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
Don't free the timer on DeviceClose. Fixes a deadlock. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Wed Dec 9 2009 Adam Jackson ajax@redhat.com 1.1.3-2 - synaptics-1.1.3-timer-fix.patch: Don't free the timer in DeviceOff, since that happens on VT switch. (#540248) * Mon Aug 3 2009 Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@redhat.com 1.1.3-1 - synaptics 1.1.3 - synaptics-1.1.2-auto-adjust-edges.patch: Drop. * Mon Jul 6 2009 Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@redhat.com 1.1.2-2 - synaptics-1.1.2-auto-adjust-edges.patch: auto-adjust the edges when the actual values go past min/max (#502548). * Mon Jul 6 2009 Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@redhat.com 1.1.2-1 - synaptics 1.1.2 - drop obsolete patches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #540248 - deadlock during signal handling https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540248 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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