On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Magnus Kessler wrote: > I'm not quite sure which version of xorg is shipped with slackware 12.1. > Assuming it's a recent one, can you try if you get better success with no > xorg.conf file at all or with an xorg.conf file that doesn't contain any > InputDevice sections? Make sure that you have the xf86-input-evdev driver > installed. If you want full touchpad support (evdev gives basic support) > please install xf86-input-synaptics as well.
Magnus, One of the local LUG members gave me the solution: as root, run 'X -configure' and copy the resulting /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf. That did the trick. > You might want to install and activate hal/dbus (assuming that support for > this is built into the slackware packages). Your distro should provide you > with some .fdi files that take care of setting up the correct drivers and > defaults through hal. HAL and dbus are automatically installed and running. I'll unsubscribe now that I have this working. Thank you very much for the prompt response! Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg