Synaptics touchpad broke after update

ltracy · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Seattle, WA

I did an emerge --sync this morning and then an emerge --update --deep world. In the process my synaptics drivers were upgraded and moved from x11-misc to x11-drivers. After the upgrade my X quit loading and I get following messages in my logs. I am running gentoo 2.6.14-r2 amd64.

ignislupis · n00b Joined: 30 Aug 2005 Posts: 19

How did you change to amd64?
I installed from the 64 bit live cd and haven't had any problems at all. Except for ATI and dri in Xwindows.
I don't know if your toolchain is completely converter to 64bit but those errors looks like it can't find the entry point into the program, which probably changed after you upgraded to 64 bit.
I think that some of the tools like gcc install in different slots and you have to manually switch them to the new versions and then you have to recompile most everything.

I don't know if you have read the wiki for the synaptics driver. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad
It has a lot of good stuff there.

Also

ltracy · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Seattle, WA

I completely wiped everything (except home dir) and reinstalled gentoo with the amd64 CD. I am using the same xorg.conf file that I used with x86 though. I have since looked in the bugzilla and found someone else with the same problem with X not starting. I wouldn't suggest upgrading if you haven't already. I am not sure if it effects everybody, or if it is something that only a few of us have screwed up.

In reference to the original problem, I did check the man page and some other resources, but I didn't find anything that looked like it would help with dragging. I'll experiment with some other settings if I can ever downgrade again

Vlad.Sharp · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject:

Same here, synaptics is broke - I upgrade to sunaptics-0.14.4 and get the same errors in X.org

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:

I can confirm the problem. Just a casual "emerge -u world" and i can't start X with the same problem as you. Lines upon lines of "Elf_RelocateEntry()" problems.

Do the devs REALLY test everything before it gets commited to CVS? Doesn't look like it.

Vlad.Sharp · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:45 pm Post subject:

Ok, problem definitely located. After umerging synaptics, then doing emerge =synaptics-0.14.3 X.org works perfectly.

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject:

Yeah. Downgrading to 0.14.3 fixes it. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115026 for the bug

agabrown · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2005 Posts: 1

I had the same problem on my AMD64 system. Downgrading is not an option in that case. However, downloading the sources directly from the synaptics driver homepages and then compiling them `by hand' solved the problem (don't forget to unmerge first).

blair1 · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 11

For AMD64 system, adding the ~x86 keyword and masking 0.14.4 worked for me.

Voyageur · Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

As suggested by a x86 user in the bug report, I removed the PIC parts of the patch, and it worked on amd64 too

Now running happily with synaptics 0.14.4 (even if it says many things have been improved for amd64, I have not seen any improvements/differences yet)
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pinger · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 128

Same problem on ~x86. At first I thought it was caused by my switching to gcc-3.4.4 when my xorg had been compiled with 3.3.x but that wasn't it. Downgrading to 0.14.3 fixed the problem for me as well.

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

the patch from Pierre Poissinger works great:

go to home directory and create a file

s0lar · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 55

I had the same thing, after updating to 0.14.4 my x-config was broken. I will wait for the fixed ebuild and emerge it then.

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

DNAspark99 · Guru Joined: 03 Sep 2004 Posts: 321

Same issue here, upgrade to 0.14.4 broke the synaptics driver, X fails upon trying to load it. My fix was just to add "~amd64" to the ebuild for 0.14.3, since that was the version I was using before, and re-merge it, downgrading back to the version that didn't kill X. (question is, WHY was the '~amd64' keyword removed from the 0.14.3 ebuild if it was working?)

of course, my next sync will undo the keyword changes and want to upgrade to the broken version again.
I'll pass on that one for a while, hopefully this gets straightened out quickly...

Voyageur · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:35 am Post subject:

According to the changelog, all the amd64 keywords were removed from previous versions because "versions prior to 0.14.4 do not work properly on amd64" (even if I never noticed that

).

Well, at least, 0.14.4 works fine when the PIC things are removed from the ebuild.
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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

pathcing like supposed by azote worked for me (x86).. just remember you have to

e-ipi · Apprentice Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 192

It also seems to be broken on ppc. I was having the same difficulties with X on my Powerbook6,8 (only in my case, it would lock up the machine -- it seemed to be running, but I couldn't get into it from another machine, nor could I use the keyboard. xmon worked, though.) Downgrading to 0.14.3 solved the problem.

_loki_ · l33t Joined: 18 Dec 2003 Posts: 680 Location: in the shell

now it gets annoying.. there is a r1 release of the ebulid and stil the same problem!!!

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

Ah well the dragging issue went away after I removed the PIC stuff on the latest ebuild. Works for me!
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