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2008/2/17, Michael J. Barillier <blackwolf@××××××××××××××××.net>: |
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> The touchpad on my Acer laptop has stopped working in X after a recent |
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> `emerge -uD world'. Looking through emerge.log doesn't indicate |
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> anything hardware-related. The touchpad shows up in dmesg: |
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> |
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> ,---- |
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> | Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x12a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x204000 |
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> | input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5 |
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> `---- |
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> and in /proc/bus/input/devices: |
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> ,---- |
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> | I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=12b1 |
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> | N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" |
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> | P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0 |
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> | S: Sysfs=/class/input/input5 |
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> | U: Uniq= |
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> | H: Handlers=mouse0 event5 |
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> | B: EV=b |
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> | B: KEY=6420 0 7000f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 |
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> | B: ABS=11000003 |
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> `---- |
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> and /proc/config.gz says: |
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> ,---- |
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> | CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y |
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> `---- |
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> I'd seen references to cat-ing /dev/input/mouse0 and using the touchpad, |
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> but when I do that no output is generated. xorg.conf has: |
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> | Section "InputDevice" |
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> | Identifier "TouchPad" |
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> | Driver "synaptics" |
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> | Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" |
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> | Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" |
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> | Option "SHMConfig" "on" |
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> | EndSection |
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> | |
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> | Section "ServerLayout" |
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> | Identifier "X.org Configured" |
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> | Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 |
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> | InputDevice "TouchPad" "CorePointer" |
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> | InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" |
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> | EndSection |
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> `---- |
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> but the pointer still fails to move (x11-drivers/synaptics has been |
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> emerged too). Does anyone have any suggestions on where to look to |
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> diagnose this issue? I'm running out of ideas at this point. |
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> thx -- |
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> -- |
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> Michael J. Barillier /// http://www.blackwolfinfosys.net/~blackwolf/ |
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> _O_| Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: "Any sufficiently |
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> __O| complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally- |
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> OOO| specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." |
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> -- |
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Hi, |
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have you added INPUT="synaptics" in you /etc/make.conf? |
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that will cause to build the synaptics module for the xorg server. |
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HTH |
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Davide |
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