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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:25:01
Message-Id: 201011182224.42457.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)? by Grant Edwards
1 On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes <fs.antunes@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
4 > >
5 > ><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>wrote:
6 > >> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
7 > >> sensitivity?
8 > >>
9 > >> All the docs I can find seem to assume two things:
10 > >> 1) an xorg.conf file
11 > >>
12 > >> 2) the xf86-input-synpatics driver
13 > >>
14 > >> I'm using neither.
15 > >
16 > > You can adjust synaptics changing the configuration on the
17 > > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file.
18 > > man 4 synaptic can give you a lot of extra options.
19 >
20 > That only works if you're using the synaptics driver -- which I'm not.
21 >
22 > I haven't figured out how to do that yet. It was built, since I
23 > included it in INPUT_DEVICES, but HAL decided not to use it.
24
25 What does your Xorg.0.log say about synaptics?
26
27 $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep synaptics
28 (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
29 (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
30 (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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