Context: pentium 4, latest gentoo, kde 3.3.2, kernel 2.6.10, and the compiled synaptics stuff.
As far as mice are concerned this is what I find in /var/log/messages at boot time: <SNIP> ... mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice ... input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 ... input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio3 ... Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 ... Firmware: 5.9 ... Sensor: 51 ... new absolute packet format ... Touchpad has extended capability bits ... -> 4 multi-buttons, i.e. besides standard buttons ... -> multifinger detection ... -> palm detection ... input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 ... Using anticipatory io scheduler <\SNIP> But the *** touchpad **** doesn't seem to be recognized by X(org) because in /var/log/xorg.0.log I invariably find: X Window System Version 6.8.0 Release Date: 8 September 2004 ........................................... (**) |-->Input Device "PS/2 Mouse" (**) |-->Input Device "Touchpad" (**) |-->Input Device "USB Mouse" (WW) Duplicate core pointer devices. Removing core pointer attribute from "USB Mouse" (..................................... (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o (II) Module synaptics: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3 (............................... (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.13.6 Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 1 nodes) (**) Option "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux" (**) Option "SHMConfig" "on" (**) Option "RTCornerButton" "0" (**) Option "RBCornerButton" "0" (**) Option "CircularScrolling" "1" Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 (EE) Touchpad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device (EE) Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Touchpad" (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics" <\SNIP> Why doesn't it seem to recognize the Synaptics touchpad whilst at boot time it does? Are the options "device" of the kind /dev/misc/psaux, /dev/misc/mice, etc in my xorg.conf (see below) correct? And the InputDevice(s)? Ciao Vittorio Here it is what is inside my xorg.conf file as far as mice are concerned <SNIP> ----------------------- Section "ServerLayout" .............................. InputDevice "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "PS/2 Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "70" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/misc/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "RTCornerButton" "0" Option "RBCornerButton" "0" Option "CircularScrolling" "1" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection <\SNIP> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list