On 7/6/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the
errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried
compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and
'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the
two 'Driver' lines below but I still get mouse errors and X won't
start.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "mymouse"
# Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
I believe if you want to use the synaptics driver, you should be using
an "event" interface. From my xorg.conf:
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/trackpad_evt"
Option "Protocol" "event"
I use a special device node because my trackpad and keyboard would
sometimes move around on the generic event nodes. So I have a udev
rule in 10-local.rules for this:
BUS=="input", KERNEL=="event*", SYSFS{phys}=="isa0060/serio1/input0",
NAME:="input/trackpad_evt", SYMLINK="input/%k"
You can use dmesg to figure out the right setting for SYFS{phys}, or
just use /dev/input/eventX in your xorg.conf.
Of course you'll need to have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV in your kernel
configuration to get the event interfaces.
HTH,
-Richard
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