xorg-server 1.3.99 and the synaptics driver

[Marek Wawrzyczny]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your tips. I've updated the overlays. My original problem turned 
out to be a misconfiguration in the xorg.conf file.

Had to change 
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"    "AlwaysCore"
to 
        InputDevice     "Synaptics Touchpad"    "CorePointer"

in the "ServerLayout" section and change
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
to
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

I'm guessing that the autodetection code was detecting the Alps touchpad as a 
PS/2 device first (confirmed that this occurs if I take out synaptic device 
config out of xorg.conf) and then the server attempted to configure the 
device using the synaptics driver as per config file.

I'll try out the autodetection of devices later.


Cheers,

Marek Wawrzyczny

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:19:11 Michael Lothian wrote:
> Out of interest did you remember to re-emerge libsynaptics and synaptics?
> It could be the route of your problems
>
> Also I think the r300-driver overlay has been replaced with the x11 overlay
>
> If not it could be worth testing the auto detect feature of xorg-server
>
> Mike
>
> On 16/08/07, Marek Wawrzyczny <marekw1977 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a Gentoo user and have installed xorg-server-1.3.99 (and other
> > components) from the r300-driver overlay. X works great but my Alps
> > touchpad
> > stopped working. I am hoping someone might point me in the right
> > direction here.
> >
> > I can plug in my USB mouse which works fine, but the Alps touchpad does
> > not
> > send any events (I've checked all devices under /dev/input/...). It does
> > however wake up the display.
> >
> > The ebuild builds and install the server from:
> >
> > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/xserver
> > master
> >
> > and
> > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
> > master
> >
> > It is detected by the kernel:
> >
> > ---------
> > Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.1, id: 0xa3a0b3, caps:
> > 0xa04713/0x10008
> > input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5
> > ---------
> >
> > and it appears to be detected by the xorg server:
> >
> > ---------
> > (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
> > (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
> > (II) Module synaptics: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> > (II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
> > (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//synaptics_drv.so
> > ---------
> >
> > Finally, the relevant section from the xorg.conf:
> >
> > ---------
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier  "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >         Driver      "synaptics"
> >         Option      "SendCoreEvents"
> >         Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
> >         Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> > #       Option      "Protocol" "event"
> >         Option      "LeftEdge" "1900"
> >         Option      "RightEdge" "5900"
> >         Option      "TopEdge" "1400"
> >         Option      "BottomEdge" "4500"
> >         Option      "FingerLow" "25"
> >         Option      "FingerHigh" "30"
> >         Option      "MaxTapTime" "180"
> >         Option      "MaxTapMove" "220"
> >         Option      "VertScrollDelta" "100"
> >         Option      "HorizScrollDelta" "100"
> >         Option      "MinSpeed" "0.15"
> >         Option      "MaxSpeed" "0.18"
> >         Option      "AccelFactor" "0.0009"
> >         Option      "EdgeMotionMinSpeed" "200"
> >         Option      "EdgeMotionMaxSpeed" "200"
> >         Option      "UpDownScrolling" "1"
> >         Option      "CircularScrolling" "1"
> >         Option      "CircScrollDelta" "0.1"
> >         Option      "CircScrollTrigger" "2"
> >
> >         # Disable touchpad while typing:
> >         Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
> > EndSection
> > ---------
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Marek Wawrzyczny
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