On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:21:36PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still > > respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need* > > them anymore. > > I tried that, no joy. I tried copying in the "Synaptics" device, just > like in the previous xorg.conf, and also as settings inside > the "configured mouse". Neither made any difference. > > I also discovered that while KDE will let me change the magnitude of > the scroll events, it will not allow me to turn them off. I cannot > set "scroll" to "0", only "1" or more. > > On Thursday 21 August 2008, > "Felipe Gallois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in > > laptops anymore > > Yet this is what is in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > > (II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406) > (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device > to /dev/input/event8 > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8" > (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found > (**) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint: always reports core events > (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint" > (type: MOUSE) > (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint auto-dev sets device > to /dev/input/event8 > (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8" > (--) AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint touchpad found > > so it seems that it is in fact getting loaded. The old configuration > is just being ignored. >
Have you set up the "ServerLayout" Section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? I'm not shure if it will help, but I think, as I configured some other things with the touchpad, it just worked after doing this. With the best greetings Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
