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From: "Johan Blåbäck" <johan.bluecreek@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:17:34
Message-Id: 1773b4950803060416y27bef10t73ecbff2401105fd@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi.
2
3 Recently I got tired of my touchpad being too sensitive, and I decided
4 to try the synaptics-how-to on the gentoo-wiki. However, when starting
5 X I get:
6
7 [---]
8 (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.0.log", Time: Thu Mar 6 13:09:00 2008
9 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
10 (II) Module already built-in
11 (EE) NVIDIA(1): Unable to find available Display Devices for screen 1.
12 TouchPad no synaptics event device found (checked 17 nodes)
13 Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
14 (EE) TouchPad no synaptics touchpad detected and no repeater device
15 (EE) TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
16 (EE) PreInit failed for input device "TouchPad"
17 [---]
18
19 (And the touchpad gets turned off.)
20 The "no synaptics touchpad detected"-part gave me a hint to take a
21 look at /proc/bus/input/devices, and what I find is... strange:
22
23 [---]
24 I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0063
25 N: Name="ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"
26 P: Phys=isa0060/serio4/input0
27 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input4
28 U: Uniq=
29 H: Handlers=mouse0 event4
30 B: EV=7
31 B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 B: REL=103
33 [---]
34
35 I don't know much about this, but that does not seem to be a touchpad
36 (I'm very sure it's not my (usb) mouse).
37
38 For some time I lost hope of ever getting it to work. But then I
39 accidentally boot a ubuntu Live, and then my touchpad worked without
40 any problem. I compared the xorg.conf's (mine and ubuntu-live) and
41 they are the same.
42
43 So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong,
44 since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't
45 know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel
46 options that the gentoo-wiki synaptics-how-to recommends.)
47
48 Thanks for any suggestions!
49
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@×××××.com>