Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

[Johan Blåbäck]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote:
>  > Hi.
>  >
>  > Recently I got tired of my touchpad being too sensitive, and I decided
>  > to try the synaptics-how-to on the gentoo-wiki. However, when starting
>  > X I get:
>
>  [snip]
>
>
>  > TouchPad no synaptics event device found (checked 17 nodes)
>
>  [snip]
>
>
>  > So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong,
>  > since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't
>  > know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel
>  > options that the gentoo-wiki synaptics-how-to recommends.)
>  >
>  > Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>  I suspect you need these options in your kernel:
>  Device Drivers
>   Input Device Support
>   Event Interface (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y)
>
>  I also have:
>  ..
>   Mice
>    PS/2 Mouse
>  and all the sub-options compiled in:
>  CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LOGIPS2PP=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LIFEBOOK=y
>  CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y
>
>

Thanks for the reply, but I got all of those:

hostname linux # cat .config | grep CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LOGIPS2PP=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LIFEBOOK=y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y
# CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TOUCHKIT is not set

hostname linux # cat .config | grep CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y

hostname linux # cat .config | grep CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y


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>  that's nice to know.  Just so this email is accepted by your security
>  policy, I double-rot13'd the reply.  Note that your comments are now
>  quadruple-rot13'd, but I think you should be able to decrypt them
>  without too much hassle.
>

Wow, the encryption on this thing now! NSA might get confused.


>  HTH,
>  --
>  Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
>
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