Description of problem: The on off button of my touchpad is a small indent at the top left corner of my touchpad. In Windows a quick double tap on that button would enable/disable the touchpad. In Fedora 16 (and probably previous versions of Fedora) this does not work. The light is off, which in Windows indicated that the touchpad was off. The touchpad is on though and the button does not turn the light or the touchpad on or off. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Double tap the touchpad button Actual results: Nothing happens Expected results: Indicator light above button changes (on or off) and touchpad is disabled or enabled. Additional info: My laptop is an HP Pavilion G6 (G6-1B50US). AMD Phenom(tm) II P650 Dual-Core Processor 4GB Ram [ DMIDECODE INFO ] Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Product Name: HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC Version: 0593110000204610000620100 Serial Number: 5CG1221MYF UUID: 579C58E8-B265-06E7-3163-8DDE56E7D88D Wake-up Type: Power Switch SKU Number: QF761UA#ABA Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=PAV Handle 0x000C, DMI type 21, 7 bytes Built-in Pointing Device Type: Touch Pad Interface: PS/2 Buttons: 4
The version above may be wrong, this is the latest xorg server and synaptics driver that Fedora 16 repos have. Here is what rpm reports for some of my xorg packages: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.1-1.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.5-7.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drivers-7.4-2.fc15.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.7.1-2.fc16.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-1.5.0-2.fc16.x86_64 As you see the versions of Xorg and Synaptics in Fedora are not what is in your drop down for version. The xorg server seems to be at 1.11.1-1 which is not listed in the version selection, the synaptics driver seems to be at version 1.5.0-2 which again is not listed so I used the verion associated with xorg-x11-server-utils as that was one that matched the options given in the drop down. If you have commands you need me to run to give you further info let me know. I can also add that the gsettings commands work... gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled false gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchpad touchpad-enabled true
This requires some driver support which isn't there at this point. Patches for this floated around at some point but never got ready for merging. If you want to work on this, feel free to do so.
I am not a developer, I have written some c++ code here and there but not on a professional level. I will be glad to look over the older work on this but it would be helpful if you could give me a pointer as to where you last saw this code. I searched for my issue on Google but never saw this exact problem and definitely no code that mentions a fix. Any help to point me in the right direction is welcome.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 39055 ***
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