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On Sunday 12 December 2010 05:57:19 Valmor de Almeida wrote: |
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> On 12/11/2010 08:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > On 2010-11-19, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> |
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> >> and paste this in it: |
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> >> |
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> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> |
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> >> <deviceinfo version="0.2"> |
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> >> |
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> >> <device> |
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> >> |
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> >> <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad"> |
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> >> |
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> >> <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge> |
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> > |
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> > [ synaptic driver options] |
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> > |
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> >> </match> |
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> >> |
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> >> </device> |
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> >> |
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> >> </deviceinfo> |
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> >> |
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> >> Then see the examples in the file and man synaptics for finely tuning |
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> >> your touchpad. However ... I would at this stage suggest again that |
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> >> you have a look at xorg-server-1.9.x instead of trying to get HAL |
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> >> working. |
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> > |
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> > Brilliant. After tweaking a few of the pressure settings, my touchpad |
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> > works great! The hard part is remembering to restart hald as well as |
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> > the X server whenever you make any changes... |
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> |
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> Thanks for all the posts. I finally fixed the same problem I've had with |
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> my Thinkpad X201. In my case I had to do |
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> 1) Edit /etc/make.conf INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" |
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> 2) emerge xorg-drivers (also emerged xorg-server and xorg-x11 to be on |
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> the safe side) |
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> 3) cp /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/11-x11-synaptics.fdi |
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> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/. |
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> 4) edit 11-x11-synaptics.fdi |
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> 5) /etc/init.d/hald restart |
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> 6) restart xorg-server |
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Guys I'm glad that my pointers helped you get it going - but I have to say |
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that soon with xorg-server-1.9 becoming stable HAL and its xml configuration |
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files will be a thing of the past. |
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Still, you have the satisfaction of cracking this one! :-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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