Synaptics

[Cristian KLEIN]

Hi everybody,

Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Giulio, good day.
> 
> Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:50:21PM +0100, Giulio Ferro wrote:
>> Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
>>>> --------------
>>>> (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
>>>>     
>>> And what if you'll specify
>>> -----
>>>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/psm0"
>>>         Option          "Protocol"              "psm"
>>> -----
>>> in the xorg.conf?  I assume that you have your synaptics touchpad
>>> as the /dev/psm0.
>>>   
>> Yes, I have the touchpad as /dev/psm0
> 
> But what protocol is selected?  From your Xorg log I assume that
> it is either "event", "auto-dev" or not set at all.

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.

It almost seems that no matter what options I pass to synaptics, it does not 
receive them. Is it possible that Xorg's option retrieval functions have changed 
making the (relatively) old synaptics unusable?