On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:57 -0500, Frank wrote: > In tryping to get my Synaptics touchpad working I notice the following > statement at > http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html#TroubleShoot : > > > How do I use this driver with Linux kernel 2.6.x? > > You need to have the "evdev" driver loaded or compiled into the > kernel (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV). Set the "Protocol" parameter in the X > configuration file to "auto-dev". Also, if you set the "Device" > parameter to "/dev/psaux", the same X configuration file should work > for a 2.4.x kernel. > > > Is this true? > > lsmod | grep evdev displays nothing. Does this mean that I am not > running this driver? Do I need to recompile the kernel to get it? (I > can't believe that people are recompiling to kernel to get this common > type of touchpad working). > > Frank. > Cross your fingers and try (as root): yum install synaptics. I have used this on my laptop for the past few months. You probably need to log out of X and, as root, init 1, followed by init 5, to load module. I don't recall making any changes to xorg.conf to get the new touchpad features to work. Kevin Freeman
