On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to >> udev was required (see also the list history for several threads on that >> topic). > > I do not understand what you mean here. I use Sid and I am not aware of > any recent problems with either hal or udev. (I stress this to warn you > that I might be unaware of some fundamental aspects of your issue.)
I am in exactly the same situation. > >> Now, udev stopped working? Did I miss any change to xorg >> behaviour? I'm using the latest xorg and kdm/kde on testing. > > I would start by checking: > > 1) Does hal know that there is a touchpad? > > lshal -u $(hal-find-by-capability --capability input.touchpad) > > 2) The output of 1) should tell you the associated linux.device_file; in > my case this is /dev/input/event7. The next step is to find the > devpath: > > udevadm info --query=path --name=/dev/input/event7 > > 3) I get "/devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input7/event7" from 2). > Now one can test what udev does when the device is added; maybe that > command will give you a clue, or you can make the output available so > that we can compare: > > udevadm test /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input7/event7 > I followed your advice, here's the output of that command: http://debian.pastebin.com/Bft7phBw It's quite long, and I have to say that I have very little understanding of anything it says... I do know that /etc/udev/rules.d/66-xorg-synaptics.rules is the file that I created when HAL stopped working, and it was working up until two days ago (more or less). > -- > Regards, | > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > Thanks for your help, Francis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
