On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:54:28 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Saturday 16 August 2008, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > I think the best way to fix this bug is to add something like this in
> > the hal configuration.
> 
> Wouldn't that mean that somehow X configuration will need to pre-depend on 
> hal _and_ on whatever package provides this configuration snippet so that 
> you can be sure hal is restarted before X.Org is configured?
> I suspect getting that right could be a serious challenge...
> 
> Or would this mean that the touchpad is autodetected when X is _started_ 
> even if it is not mentioned in the xorg.conf?
> 
X gets that information from hal on startup, so if a touchpad is
detected and listed in hal when X starts, it will automatically load
the synaptics driver to handle it.

Cheers,
Julien



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