On Friday 06 April 2007 03:37, Issac Trotts wrote: > > > One thing that's a little strange is that sometimes the touchpad > > > shows up on event2 and sometimes on event3. Not sure how to deal > > > with that... > > > > You need "configured mouse" to deal with external mice that you may > > plug in to a USB port. > > > > As for the event2/event3 thing, it may be that you have an external > > mouse plugged in that's getting event2 sometimes. There may be > > other factors. You can always write udev rules to symlink the > > built-in devices to fixed names. > > OK, this is going in the right direction. I created a file called > /etc/udev/rules.d/40-personal.rules with the following contents: > > > # > # > http://mail.kdewebdev.org/pipermail/linuxr3000/2005-March/000181.html > # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1353267 > # http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > # > > # touchpad > BUS=="serio",SYSFS{description}=="i8042 Aux-3 Port", > KERNEL=="event?",SYMLINK="input/touchpad" > > # USB mouse > BUS=="usb",KERNEL=="mouse?", SYMLINK="input/usb_mouse" > > > and changed the relevant lines of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/usb_mouse" > > and > > Option "Device" "/dev/input/touchpad" > > > > Now when I reboot, the USB mouse works but the touchpad does nothing. > If I then do ctrl-alt-backspace to restart X, it all works perfectly > with no tap-to-click. I can live with this, though I'd be curious if > there's a way to make it work without this little kludge.
I don't know the answer to this. I'd look to see whether any necessary kernel modules for the touchpad are loaded before the X server runs the first time (or whether the X server is loading them themselves). I'd also look to see if ubuntu's startup scripts have a race condition in them. Beyond that, I have no answer. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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