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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:21:14
Message-Id: 44AD32D1.1060108@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Modular xorg mouse problem by Grant
1 Grant wrote:
2 > I upgraded my laptop to modular xorg but X won't start. Based on the
3 > errors I see, it seems to be due to the mouse in some way. I've tried
4 > compiling xorg-x11 with only 'synaptics' and both 'synaptics' and
5 > 'mouse' in my INPUT_DEVICES. I've also commented and uncommented the
6 > two 'Driver' lines below but I still get mouse errors and X won't
7 > start.
8 >
9 > Section "InputDevice"
10 > Identifier "mymouse"
11 > # Driver "mouse"
12 > Driver "synaptics"
13 > Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
14 > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
15 > Option "Emulate3Buttons"
16 > Option "Emulate3Timeout" "150"
17 > Option "MaxTapTime" "0"
18 > Option "MinSpeed" "0.3"
19 > Option "MaxSpeed" "0.75"
20 > Option "AccelFactor" "0.005"
21 > # Option "SHMConfig" "on"
22 > EndSection
23 >
24 > I ran 'revdep-rebuild -p' and it only wants to remerge gcc and some
25 > gst stuff so I haven't run it for real yet.
26 >
27 > Does anyone know how to fix this?
28
29 Try changing the device to /dev/input/mice for the mouse driver. I think
30 the synaptics driver has to use the event interface.
31
32 Thanks,
33 Donnie

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