2008/2/17, Michael J. Barillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The touchpad on my Acer laptop has stopped working in X after a recent > `emerge -uD world'. Looking through emerge.log doesn't indicate > anything hardware-related. The touchpad shows up in dmesg: > > ,---- > | Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x12a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x204000 > | input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5 > `---- > > and in /proc/bus/input/devices: > > ,---- > | I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=12b1 > | N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" > | P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 > | S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5 > | U: Uniq= > | H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 > | B: EV=b > | B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > | B: ABS=11000003 > `---- > > and /proc/config.gz says: > > ,---- > | CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y > `---- > > I'd seen references to cat-ing /dev/input/mouse0 and using the touchpad, > but when I do that no output is generated. xorg.conf has: > > ,---- > | Section "InputDevice" > | Identifier "TouchPad" > | Driver "synaptics" > | Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > | Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > | Option "SHMConfig" "on" > | EndSection > | > | Section "ServerLayout" > | Identifier "X.org Configured" > | Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 > | InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer" > | InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" > | EndSection > `---- > > but the pointer still fails to move (x11-drivers/synaptics has been > emerged too). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look to > diagnose this issue? I'm running out of ideas at this point. > > thx -- > > -- > Michael J. Barillier /// http://www.blackwolfinfosys.net/~blackwolf/ > _O_| Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently > __O| complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally- > OOO| specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
Hi, have you added INPUT="synaptics" in you /etc/make.conf? that will cause to build the synaptics module for the xorg server. HTH Davide -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
