Synaptics

[Cristian KLEIN]

Eygene Ryabinkin a scris:
> Cristian, good day.
> 
> Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:26:41PM +0200, cristi at roedu.net wrote:
>>>> I just ran into the same problem. In xorg.conf I explicitly told the
>>>> synaptics driver to use "psm" and "/dev/psm0", but the error message
>>>> would
>>>> suggest that it uses "event".
>>>>
>>>> Also, I tried to change the source code of the synaptics driver
>>>> (synaptics.c) and hard-coded "psm" as the only driver, no matter what
>>>> xorg.conf says. Synaptics still would not start, but this time
>>>> complaining
>>>> that no device was specified. Please note that I had "Device" in my
>>>> xorg.conf, but the error suggests that the driver ignored it.
>> Suppose I use the attached xorg.conf file, at some point,
>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log shows the following error:
>>
>> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
>> Synaptics_Touchpad no synaptics event device found (checked 10 nodes)
>> Synaptics_Touchpad The /dev/input/event* device nodes seem to be missing
>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified.
>> Synaptics driver unable to open device
>> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics_Touchpad"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
>>
>> As you said, it looks like synaptics is trying to use the "auto" protocol,
>> although the configuration file tells it to use "psm".
>>
>> Now, if I put the attached patch in x11-drivers/synaptics/files, using the
>> same xorg.conf, synaptics will fail like this:
>>
>> (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: No Device specified.
>> Synaptics driver unable to open device
>> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Synaptics_Touchpad"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
>>
>> It almost looks as if I have to hardcode the device too, because synaptics
>> certainly ignores my options.
> 
> This is a sort of 'ping' mail, sorry.  To the point: I had reproduced
> the problem and will start looking into it once this message will
> fly from my mailserver.  Stay tuned ;))

Thank you very much for 'pinging'. :) As the driver synaptics driver din not 
change for month, I speculate there might have been a change in the Xorg API, 
especially related to sucking configuration options.

Is there any way I could help?