Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Uwe <keksvernichter@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:59:22
Message-Id: 20081125155916.034d3000@motoko
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling! by Iain Buchanan
1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:14:51 +0930
2 Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
3
4 > [...]
5 > The xorg.0.log error is:
6 > SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16
7 > [...]
8 > any suggestions?
9 >
10 > thanks,
11
12 Am I right, if I'm assuming, you're using HAL?
13
14 Maybe you could try this workaround from the archlinux-bugzilla:
15 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12143
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18 HTH
19 Uwe