Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click,
etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never
really looked into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed
as I've been docked for so long with a usb mouse.
I've had the same section layout for aaaages:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptic Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
EndSection
The xorg.0.log error is:
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16
I tried first changing
Option "GrabEventDevice" "false"
but that didn't work. I noticed this:
(II) config/hal: Adding input device SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
so I thought maybe hal is grabbing the touchpad and interfering somehow.
I tried to turn off hal in my serverlayout section:
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
but that doesn't help either. Now there's hardly any synaptic messages
in xorg.0.log, no errors, and I still can't scroll.
I'm sure theres some simple USE flag or option that I need to use but I
can't find it! More to the point I would like to understand why it
worked for so long but doesn't now (I've been using a similar xorg.conf
file for... a long time!).
any suggestions?
thanks,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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