Created attachment 32674 [details] /var/log/Xorg.0.log I reported the same bug to the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics Debian package. Since it does not receive any attention there I thought I'd report upstream. I recently upgraded to xorg 7.4 so I could use the Nvidia driver nouveau. On Debian xorg 7.4 required synaptics driver version 1.2.0 or later. I can reproduce the problem with the latest git version of synaptics. The bug does not happen with xorg 7.3 + synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-3 (Debian package). The following symptoms lead me to believe it is a problem with the synaptics driver. * Steps to reproduce 1. open two X terminals 2. select some text in one terminal 3. left-click the other terminal using the touchpad 4. repeat above steps several times * Expected result Step 3 switches window focus. * Actual result Step 3 switches window focus and sometimes pastes the selected text from the other terminal. It usually takes 10-20 repetitions of the above process for this to happen. If it does not happen, doing something else like switching windows usually helps trigger the problem again. I was able to reproduce this with xev (log attached). Sometimes both button events are generated, sometimes only button 2. I can _not_ reproduce the problem with a USB mouse. The problem is especially annoying in firefox, where button 2 causes tabs to be closed and the pasted text is interpreted as URLs to be opened. It's also annoying when the clipboard contents get pasted on IRC. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc1-00366-g2f99f5c (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-synaptics depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpciaccess0 0.10.3-1 Generic PCI access library for X ii libpixman-1-0 0.16.2-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libx11-6 2:1.3.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxi6 2:1.2.1-2 X11 Input extension library ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.5-1 Xorg X server - core server xserver-xorg-input-synaptics recommends no packages. Versions of packages xserver-xorg-input-synaptics suggests: pn gpointing-device-settings <none> (no description available) pn touchfreeze <none> (no description available)
Created attachment 32675 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Created attachment 32676 [details] lshal
Created attachment 32677 [details] xev output
Created attachment 32678 [details] drm information from dmesg
The Debian bug is #563045. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563045
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 on a Dell Vostro 1500, and this bug started to occur when I upgraded to kernel 2.6.33 (available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.33/) Clicking on the left button of my touchpad may randomly result as a right click or a middle click. My synaptics package is 1.1.2-1ubuntu7 (same as Debian Sid + a few Ubuntu patches), Xorg is 7.4.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:51:02AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > My synaptics package is 1.1.2-1ubuntu7 (same as Debian Sid + a few Ubuntu > patches), Xorg is 7.4. I have recently upgraded to Xorg 7.5 and the latest nouveau linux kernel (ea0a1d5), since current nouveau drm does not work with vanilla kernels. The problem has since gone away. [*] Other related (Debian) package versions are as follows. So the current synaptics driver in Debian sid seems to be slightly more recent than yours. ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+3 ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.4-2 ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.3.2-3 ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.4.0-1 ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.5.0-1 ii xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 1.2.1-1 ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.1-1 ii xserver-xorg-video-v4l 1:0.2.0-4 [*] I can not be absolutely certain that this upgrade fixed the problem, since there have had other upgrades before that and I had the middle mouse button deactivated (xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 0 3') until this latest upgrade.
(In reply to comment #7) > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:51:02AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to Xorg 7.5 and the latest nouveau linux kernel > (ea0a1d5), since current nouveau drm does not work with vanilla kernels. The > problem has since gone away. [*] Turns out that latest nouveau at that time was still based on 2.6.32. I recently upgraded to latest nouveau again (2.6.34-rc2-00742-ga2b2091), and the bug reappeared. Obviously nouveau is now based on 2.6.34-rc2. I'm going to try and bisect -- which might take a while...
Ok, I managed to bisect the bug to commit 315eb996 (Input: psmouse - rework setting of BTN_MIDDLE capability) with a vanilla kernel. Reverting the commit in 2.6.34-rc2 also seems to fix the problem. I will report this to lkml after some more testing.
Kernel bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755
The reason for the button 2 events was the multifinger click feature. It was disabled previously to kernel version 2.6.33, because the kernel used to report a 3-button device. Either way, it can be disabled by setting the configuration option ClickFinger3 to 1, i.e., # /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "CorePointer" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "ClickFinger3" "1" EndSection Since this triggers way too easily by accident, I would like to ask that this feature be disabled by default. That way, behavior also doesn't change on a kernel upgrade.
good point, I agree here. since this is a defaults change, I'd like to have this archived on the list, see the thread here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-April/007891.html Note that at least with the last configuration applied here, this may not be everything you need, as the required fields has_left and has_middle are not set for backends other than the eventcom backend. for the hotplugging case however, this should work
Pushed, thanks for tracking this bug down. commit 776ec0ed42616769ed834b5822df3b2b0d5c0e85 Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Date: Thu Apr 29 15:03:55 2010 +1000 Disable ClickFinger for touchpads with more than one physical button (#26079)
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 09:45:54PM -0700, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > Pushed, thanks for tracking this bug down. Thanks.
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