xserver-xorg.synaptics question

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:02:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2015 23:53:00 Felix Miata wrote:
> > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-04-27 23:10 (UTC-0400):
> > > Mint 17.1 Xfce.  I had to make that directory, and moved it to
> > > 50-synaptics.conf in that otherwise empty, newly created dir. 
> > > Rebooted now, I'll check.  Nope, not a noticeable difference.  Copy
> > > of Xorg.0.log attached.
> > >
> > > As of the last reboot, correspnding to the Xorg.0.log attached,
> > > there is no /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
> > >
> > > May be you can see something in the logfile I cannot?
> >
> > Nothing I recognize. Something else you can try is putting a file of
> > whatever name you please in $HOME, then export 'XORGCONFIG=whatever'
> > in .bashrc. If that doesn't work either, maybe there's a bug or the
> > ignore option for synaptics has been removed. Or, maybe Mint is using
> > the libinput driver instead of the synaptics driver and there's a
> > whole different methodology required to disable it.
> 
> Sound like I ought to head back over to their list & see if I can 
> synthesize some hate & discontent.  They have been nice, but also less 
> than helpfull on this front.
> 
> I'll give this a shot too, but from what I see in the startup log for x, 
> it isn't looking at anything I have done so far, so I don't have any 
> great hopes that the above might work.  Sigh.

from your log:
[    39.796] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Apr 27 22:54:01
2015
[    39.851] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

from my log:
[370012.609] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Tue Apr 28 13:09:52
2015
[370012.610] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[370012.610] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"

Check your/mint's configure options. This is rather odd.

Cheers,
   Peter