On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:13:45 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 02:12:59PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:05 +0100 > > Barry Samuels wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to > > > be missing > > > > > > What would that mean? > > > > Not sure, but in the kernel config, there's something called > > CONFIG_INPUT_DEV (Device Drivers / Input device support / Event > > interface).
[...] > > Perhaps your kernel doesn't have this enabled? > > from the tone of the prior thread, I assume it's a stock kernel, so, > OP, let us know if it's not. > > Apropos the xorg log, if the synaptics module can't find the device > then it won't work, I would assume :) > > Can you provide the logs of what packages you upgraded that brought > about this failure? I'm thinking maybe this points to a hal problem, > perhaps (but know nothing about hal...). The output of the following command should tell us what HAL knows/thinks about the touchpad: lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability input.touchpad) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org