On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 07:08:10PM +0200, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > thanks for the hint. Considering that in order to run synclient(1) I need X, > I tried to run: > > X -configure > > from root in order to get a xorg.conf file to modify with SHMConfig "on" in > [Input Devices] (I had always run X without a xorg.conf file on this > machine, it always "just worked"). I then got the following errors: > > cannot open /dev/wsmouse > [snip] > Xorg is not able to detect your mouse > > Then trying the edited xorg.conf.new just leads to a nonmoving mouse. The > output of synclient is just "Failed to connect to X server.". > So, the problem persists and I cannot audit the synaptics device :( > > What to do next? > Thanks > > in my .Xdefaults file, but synclient still complains "can't connect to X > server". >
I experienced something similar on a ThinkPad t500 when using the default xorg.conf-output from 'Xorg -configure'. For me it was only neccessary to change xorg.conf from specifying '/dev/wsmouse' to acutally use '/dev/wsmouse0'. Regards, Erling
