[gentoo-user] Synaptics and HAL Device Information Files

[Redouane Boumghar]

Hello All !

I have tried many things to make my touchpad work with the new xorg and
HAL but in vain...
Fortunatly my video is allright (xorg.conf), 
my keyboard is also good (/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-x11-input.fdi and /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi)
and my usb mouse works but I strictly have no entry for it either in
xorg.conf or any fdi files in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/

I only have this Section in my xorg.conf :

===========================
Section "ServerFlags"
     Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"
EndSection
===========================


First of all where can I find information about the file names of FDI ?
NUMBER-NAME-NAME.fdi

Where are the specification of the nomenclature ?
I have found different names possible :
11-x11-synaptics.fdi
99-x11-synaptics.fdi

Why the donkey would it be 99 or 11 ?

Thanks for any hints about that..

My Kernel seems well configured for HAL to work properly. (Event Interface
& Mice > PS/2 mouse)

The thing is that I don't know how to match my touchpad with the
fdi policy or that I have another unknown problem.

I have the following devices :

=========================
root~$  xinput  list --short
"Virtual core keyboard" id=0    [XKeyboard]
"Virtual core pointer"  id=1    [XPointer]
"Macintosh mouse button emulation"      id=2    [XExtensionPointer]
"PS/2 Mouse"    id=3    [XExtensionPointer]
"AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"  id=4    [XExtensionKeyboard]
"HID 04d9:1133" id=5    [XExtensionPointer]
=========================

I have tried many different synaptics fdi files and for now I am trying
this simplest one :

=========================
root~$ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/99-x11-synaptics.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
      <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
              <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>
=========================


Thanks in advance for your help and pointers,

Red.


ps : 
INSTALLED : 
sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8  USE="X crypt dell doc laptop -acpi -apm -debug -disk-partition (-selinux)"
x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3  USE="hal -debug"
x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.0.0  USE="hal -debug"