Oh, I’m sorry, I said it wrong. This is such muscle memory for me that I fail to notice what I’m doing in order to describe it properly.

Yes, tapping is working for clicks.

Really what I don’t have is when you tap and then drag your finger in order to select an arbitrary amount of text, like what I get from holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse. That’s consistently what I want to do on console, and selecting words and lines is less common for me.

I have the feeling that you’re talking purely about configuring the touchpad under X11 and not about gpm and the console at all, but I’m not quite certain.

Sure, I just didn’t want to engage in a time-consuming post if the answer was that it hasn’t worked in 15 years, which seemed quite likely with the state of GPM. This is daedalus on a thinkpad x201.

Linux semil 6.1.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.90-1 (2024-05-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

[    3.416876] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5888], y [..4810]
[    3.496504] psmouse serio1: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 7.4, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xd047b1/0xb40000/0xa0000/0x0, board id: 0, fw id: 615624
[    3.496650] psmouse serio1: synaptics: serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
[    3.546599] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2

Did you have to do any GPM configuration to get the Synaptics features, or did it Just Work?

On the other hand, there was yet another set of xorg security updates that we don’t get because it's forked.

That shows just xorg-server-source, but the runtime pieces have names like xserver-xorg-*. And the xserver-xorg-core in Daedalus is 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u2devuan1.

Thanks!

Another possibility is probably within the infinitude of git.devuan.org. Maybe something will happen on some branch in https://git.devuan.org/devuan/xorg-server/branches as an indication of code getting into Daedalus. Or maybe not. That might be not the right region of git at all.

Given that I won’t be using that Daedalus system regularly until this has been fixed, what is the most efficient way to check periodically from somewhere else whether the fix has happened yet?

Would it be more appropriate to have this topic moved to a lower-level subforum where more of the right people might see it, since, strictly speaking, this subforum suggests being about things running on X and not about getting X to run.

If this forum is even capable of moving topics, that is.