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Patrick McLean wrote: |
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> Michal ®eravík wrote: |
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>> Antoine Martin wrote: |
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>>> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 07:45 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: |
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>>>> I did something kind of stupid, when I first installed Gentoo, I |
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>>>> left my usb optical mouse connected to my laptop. After install |
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>>>> that mouse works fine, but the synaptics touchpad does not. Any |
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>>>> good hints on how to make it work? I've emerged synaptics, but that |
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>>>> hasn't help, so there must be something else. Should I rebuild my |
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>>>> xorg.conf file? |
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>>> This isn't a gentoo-amd64 question, but my guess is that your xorg.conf |
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>>> points to the usb mouse. The synaptics probably comes up as a normal |
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>>> psaux mouse. Simply adding another mouse device section should do it. |
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>>> Google should be able to find this for you. ("synaptics device |
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>>> section") |
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>>> Antoine |
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>> don't forget to enable Device Manager in kernel (multidevice...) |
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> You mean RAID/LVM? You don't need that unless you are using RAID or |
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> volume management. Almost every desktop user doesn't need that stuff, |
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> the "device manager" you are thinking about is nothing like the |
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> windows one, it's for managing arrays of drives in servers, not system |
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> devices. |
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If you have synaptic touchpad, you need device manager. |
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At least what I've tried on notebook. Compile it into kernel. |
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I afraid that you can't get touchpad working unless it's enabled. |
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michal |
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