On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 21:49:34 +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > On 16/10/09 21:22:22, Barry Samuels wrote: > > On 16/10/09 20:13:45, 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 [...] > > > > 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? > > > > It is enabled. > > > > > from the tone of the prior thread, I assume it's a stock kernel, so, > > > OP, let us know if it's not. > > > > No it's not. I compile my own kernels. [...] > > The output of lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability > > input.touchpad) is: > > > > udi = > > '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_AUX_port_logicaldev_input' [...] > > input.device = '/dev/event7' (string) [...] > > linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/class/input/input7/event7' (string) > > > > I hope it means more to you than it does to me. :) > > Just noticed something. On my desktop event0, event1, mice, mouse0 etc are > in /dev/input but on the laptop they are in /dev and /dev/input has only > by-id and by-path > > Is that significant? Yes, it is; it probably means that something goes wrong when udev creates the device node for the touchpad. My first guess is that you upgraded to a newer version of udev, and that it now expects some novel piece of information that your custom kernel does not provide. (IOW, I side with Celejar and Andrew in suspecting your kernel configuration is the cause of your problems.) Please install the newest stock kernel and boot into it; this will immediately tell us if we are on the right track. Once we have established that, we can delve into the details to find the relevant setting. -- 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